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All right, guys, welcome back. This week, we're looking at some Puritan

prayers from a compilation called The Valley of Vision. So today, we're actually looking at a

prayer entitled The Cry of a Convicted Sinner. So buckle up, guys. I'll read it here. Thou righteous

and holy sovereign. And whose hand is my life and whose are all my ways.

Keep me from fluttering about religion.

Fix me firm in it, for I am irresolute.

My decisions are smoke and vapor, and I do not glorify thee, or behave according to thy will.

Cut me not off before my thoughts grow to responses, and the budding of my soul into full flower,

for thou art forbearing and good, patient and kind.

Save me from myself, from the artifices and deceits of sin, from the treachery of my perverse nature,

from denying thy charge against my offenses, from a life of continual rebellion against thee,

from wrong principles, views, and ends, for I know that all my thoughts, affections,

desires, and pursuits are alienated from thee. I have acted as if I hated thee, although thou art

love itself, have contrived to tempt thee to the uttermost to wear out thy patience, have lived

evilly in word and action. Had I been a prince, I would long ago have crushed such a rebel.

Had I been a father, I would long since have rejected my child. O thou father of my spirit,

thou king of my life, cast me not into destruction, drive me not from

my presence, but wound my heart that it may be healed. Break it that thine own hand may make it whole.

So guys, as I was reading the cry of a convicted sinner for the first time, there were a couple of

lines that really stood out to me

above the others, and so I underlined them, and I'll read them again here. Had I been a prince,

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