Behold, a company of guilty supplicants at your footstool. O God of all grace, work in us to will and to do your good pleasure. Transform our being so that we may be the joy of many generations. Our understandings are darkened. Our heart is a heart of stone. Our very conscience also is defiled. Our affections are earthly and sensual. Open the eyes of our understanding. Purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God. Set our affections on things that are above. As he who has called us is holy, so may we also be holy in all manner of conversation and godliness. To the only wise God, our Savior, be glory and majesty, forever and ever. Amen.
William Jay (1769–1853)
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The Rev. William Jay (6 May 1769 - 27 December 1853) was an English nonconformist divine who preached for sixty years at Argyle Chapel in Bath. He is considered to be one of the most eminent English Congregationalist preachers of Regency England; one of the first Independents or Congregationalists to articulate the Great Awakening or Religious Revival championed by George Whitfield and John Wesley.Technorati Tags: William Jay,prayer
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