From The Valley of Vision:
O Lord God, who inhabitest eternity,
the heavens declare thy glory,
the earth thy riches,
the universe is thy temple;
thy presence fills immensity,
Yet thou hast of they pleasure created life, and communicated happiness;
Thou hast made me what I am, and given me what I have;
In thee I live and move and have my being;
thy providence has set the bounds of my habitation,
and wisely administers all my affairs.
I thank thee for thy riches to me in Jesus,
for the unclouded revelation of him in thy Word,
where I behold his Person, character, grace, glory,
humiliation, sufferings, death, and resurrection;
Give me to feel a need of his continual saviourhood,
and cry with Job, “I am vile”,
with Peter, “I perish”,
with the publican, “Be merciful to me, a sinner”.
Subdue in me the love of sin,
let me know the need of renovation as well as of forgiveness,
in order to serve and enjoy thee forever.
I come to thee in the all-prevailing name of Jesus,
with nothing of my own to plead,
no works, no worthiness, no promises.
I am often straying,
often knowingly opposing thy authority,
often abusing thy goodness;
Much of my guilt arises from my religious privileges,
my low estimation of them,
my failure to use them to my advantage,
but I am not careless of thy favour or regardless of thy glory;
impress me deeply with a sense of thine omnipresence,
that thou art about my path, my ways, my lying down, my end.