Reconciliation

Help me to make use of His work of salvation as
the ground of peace,
and of thy favour to, and acceptance of me
the sinner,
so that I may live always near the cross.

The Saviour

1)
May I enter Him [Jesus] as my refuge,
build on Him as my foundation,
walk in HIm as my way,
follow HIm as my guide,
conform to Him as my example,
receive His instructions as my prophet,
rely on His intercession as my high priest,
obey Him as my king.

2)
May I never make the multitude my model.

God and myself

At the cross may I contemplate the evil of sin,
and abhor it,
look on him who I pierced,
as one slain for me, and by me.

The Cry of the Convicted Sinner

Save me from myself,
from the artifices and deceits of sin,
from the treachery of my perverse nature,
from denying the charge of my offences,
from a life of continual rebellion against thee,
for I know that all my thoights, affections,
desires, and pursuits are alienated from me.

The Gospel Way

Help me to give up every darling lust
to submit heart and life to its [the Gospel] command,
to have it in my will,
controlling my affections,
moulding my understanding...

Love to Jesus

It is fitting that thou shouldest not regard me,
for I am vile and selfish;
yet I seek thee,
and when I find thee there is no wrath
to devour me,
but only sweet love.

The Love of Jesus

If traces of Christ's love-artistry be upon me,
may he work on with his divine brush
until the complete image be obtained
and I be made a perfect copy of him,
my Master.

Jesus My Glory

May I be equally convinced of the guilt
and pollution of sin,
feel my need of a pronce and a saviour,
implore of him repentance as well as forgiveness,
love holiness, and be pure in heart,
have the mind of Jesus, and tread in His steps.

Christ Alone

Here, it is my duty
to be as Christ in this world,
to do what he would do,
to live as he would live,
to walk in live and meekness;
then would he be known

The Name of Jesus

I am ready to flee from myself because of
my abominations;
Yet thou dost no abhor me
but hast devised means for my return to thee,
and that, my thy Son who died to give me life.

The Broken Heart

Blessed Jesus, let me find a covert in they appeasing wounds.
Though my sins rise to heaven thy merits soar
above them;
Though unrighteousness weighs me down to hell,
thy righteousness exalts me to thy throne.
All things in me call for my rejection,
All things in thee plead my acceptance.

The Deeps

Plough deep in me, great Lord,
heavenly Husbandman,
that my being may be tilled field,
the roots of grace spreading far and wide,
until thou alone art seen in me,
thy beauty golden like summer harvest,
thy fruitfulness as autumn plenty.

Fullness in Christ

...when faith fills me, then I am full;
that this is the way to be filled with the Spirit,
like Stephen, first faith, the fullness,
for this is way makes me most empty,
and so most fot for the Spirit to fill.

Heart Corruptions

Grant me grace to bear they will without repining,
and delight to be
not only chiseled, squared, or fashioned,
but separated from the old rock where I have
been embedded so long,
and lifted from the quarry to the upper air,
where I may be built in Christ for ever.

Yet I Sin

Grant that through the tears of repentance
I may see more clearly the brightness
and glories of the saving cross.

Christ is all

May I never dally with the world
and its allurements,
but walk by thy side,
listen to thy voice,
be clothed with thy graces,
and adorned with thy righteousness.

Christ the Word

My sin is not so much this or that particular evil,
but my continual separation, disunion,
distance from thee,
and having a loose spirit towardss thee.

The Great Discovery

Grant that I may always weep to the praise of
mercy found,
and tell to others as long as I live,
that thou art a sin-pardoning God,
taking up the balsphemer and the ugodly,
and washing them from their deepest stain.

The Gift of Gifts

Herein is power;
when Deity and humanity were infinitely apart
he united them in indissoluble unity,
the uncreated and the created.

God Honoured

Deliver me from the natural darkness of
my own mind,
from the corruptions of my heart,
from the temptations to which I am exposed,
from the daily snares that attend me.