The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please…

A Prayer for the Morning.

O Most mighty and glorious God, full of incomprehensible Power and Majesty, whose glory the very heaven of heavens is not able to contain:¹ look down from heaven upon me, thine unworthy servant, who here prostrate my self at the ^afootstool of thy ^bThrone of Grace. But look upon me, O Father, through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ, ^cthy beloved Son, in whom only thou art well pleased. For, of my self, I am not worthy to stand in thy presence, or to speak with mine unclean ⟨p. 148⟩^alips to so holy a God as thou art. For thou knowest that in^b sin I was conceived and born, and that I have lived ever since in iniquity: so that I have broken all thy holy Commandments by sinful motions, unclean ^cthoughts, ⁸evil words, ⁹and wicked¹⁰ works ^domitting many of those duties of Piety which thou requirest for thy service, and committing many of those vices, which thou (under the penalty of thy displeasure)