his bereavement with thy purifying,
sanctifying grace. Enable us all to search and try our ways. Lead our
souls into a knowledge of the secret corruptions of our hearts, that
we may confess and mourn over them, wash in the blood of Christ, be
pardoned, restored, and get a great victory. Enable us through life to
abide in Christ; to keep close to thee, transacting all our affairs
with thee, before they come into the view of the world. Let thy wisdom
and thy Spirit, in connection with thy providences, be our
counsellors. O keep us in a dependent frame of mind, humble and
watchful. Strip us of all self-confidence. May we at the same time be
strong in the Lord and in the power of thy might; rejoicing in thee,
the God of our salvation, the strength of our heart, and our portion
for ever. Glory, glory, glory, to Father, Son, and blessed Spirit.
Amen, and Amen."

"DECEMBER, 1801.

"It is my earnest desire to 'grow in grace, and in the knowledge
of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ,' It is my desire to love the
Lord my God with all my heart, with all my soul, with all my strength,
and with all my mind; and to love my neighbor as myself, so as to do
to Mm whatever I could expect from Christian principles in him, on an
exchange of circumstances.

"It is my desire to give all diligence to add to my faith virtue,
to virtue knowledge, to knowledge temperance, to temperance patience,
to patience godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, to brotherly
kindness charity, that these things being in me and abounding, I may
be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ.

"I desire to grow in grace day by day, to profit by every
ordinance of God's appointing, and by every providence; and I pray,
Lord, I pray that thou wouldst grant me my desire, so as that I may
become more spiritual, more discerning in the Scriptures, more
fruitful in good works: that thou mayest increase also my humility.
Open to my view more of the extent and spirituality of thy divine law;
the majesty, purity, holiness, of thy nature; the exceeding sinfulness
of sin; the hidden corruptions of my own heart, and my inability to
search them out, and to crucify them: give me also more just views of
my past life, that I may ever be convinced that I am, what I really
am, the very chief of sinners, and the least of all saints; and that
it is entirely of grace that I