His Spiritual Reflections
VOLUME 3
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VOLUME 3
Amongst the memoranda of a day “set apart” shortly afterwards, the meeting of parliament being at hand, “for prayer and meditation, and other religious exercises, with moderation in food,” after acknowledging “God’s mercy in his late recovery from sickness,” he prays “above all for the love of God and my Redeemer, that this blessed principle may be like the main-spring of the machine, prompting all the movements, and diffusing its practical influence through every disposition, action, plan, and design. And (if it be consistent with the Divine will) for a more assured hope of the favour of God and Christ. May the God of hope fill me with all joy and peace in believing. O Lord, do Thou break, soften, quicken, warm my cold heart; and teach me to feel an overflowing love and gratitude, or rather a deep and grateful sense of obligation, not as a transient effusion, but as the settled temper and disposition, the practical habit of my soul: that so I may here begin the song of praise, to be sung with more purified and warmed affections in heaven. Worthy is the Lamb; and blessing, honour, glory, and power, &c.”
Date: January 16, 1808
Volume 3: Page 356
Posted: 20261112