Vol 01 -ASPIRATIONS.

ASPIRATIONS
I. GRANT, Lord, that I may look so deeply into the corruption of my nature, that I may taste the grace which is revealed in CHRIST for the restoration of nature,
2. Teach me, Lord, to know myself: O make me perceive what Adam is, and what CHRIST is; and how the first must die, but the second live in me.
3. Lord, I am taught by thy apostle, that the natural man discerneth not spiritual things; create therefore in me, a spiritual understanding, that I may discern those things which are from above.
4. Grant, Lord, that I may have a right knowledge of my present lost state, and a right discerning of the gracious means which you have appointed for my recovery, to thy honor and glory.
5. Suffer me not, Lord, to walk in the darkness of my own perverse understanding; but deliver me from all blindness and hardness of heart, and from the sophistry and stubbornness of corrupt reason. O enlighten my eyesi that I may behold the things which make for my peace, and follow thee, who art the true light.
6. O immense Sea of Love! when wilt you ravish me from myself! I am ashamed and confounded when I look into myself. O deliver you me from myself, or I perish.
7. O Infinite Love, make speed to help me: O haste to assist me, that by losing my own life, I may find thine!
8. Turn me, Lord, unto thee, by true • contrition of spirit; and say unto me, Turn again, O you child of Adam! So shall I be turned unto thee by true hurniliation of heart, that I may enjoy the gracious light of thy countenance.
9. Lord, give me thy Spirit, that may teach me by the true purification of my heart to aspire after and attain the Divine light, and so to walk in the light, as to arrive at the inheritance of light, and to awake in thy likeness!