Vol 01 - ASPIRATIONS.

ASPIRATIONS
1. LET, O Lord, that powerful word, whereby you didst create the first world, " create in me a clean heart, and renew a right spirit within me."
2. Let me overcome, by the power of thy nature, the bent of my sinful nature; and find that my restoration by grace in CHRIST, is far more powerful than the abasement by sin in Adam.
3. O how sweet, how happy is the perfect law of thy liberty! Sin has brought me under a shameful bondage; but thy Son restoreth unto me, the true freedom of spirit, and then I am free indeed! Free with the noblest and most excellent freedom; free from all the ties to lust and corruption; free from the hurry of self-will; free from the vain pursuit after worldly honor and greatness; free from the thirst of carnal pleasures; free from covetousness; free from wrath and bitterness. This freedom, verily, is freedom indeed, and the character of an heaven-born spirit!
4. Teach me, O Lord, this great truth, that no man can do any good, except he be first made good within no corrupt tree being able to bring forth any fruit that is accounted good in thy sight. This will lay me low, and make me look with a holy disdain-on all such works as I have done with an unregenerate heart!
5. How wearisome are the steps, whereby the soul, under the rigor of thy law, returns out of the snares of the love of the world into the path of the love of God. Support me, O Lord, by thy grace, and uphold me by thy Spirit, till -my faith prove the a victory that over cometh the world!"