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 in such sort as to be heard for Jesus Christ’s sake. Give me a sense of the Majesty of Thy Presence, Thou whom I now seek, Thou whom I now confess. Thou whom I now adore in faith and worship with my flesh and with my spirit, Thou who art my God, God most glorious, Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Ghost, blessed for evermore!

Though I cannot understand Thee, nor conceive Thee in Thine own nature, nor worthily praise Thee, though my thoughts concerning Thee fall infinitely short of Thee, though I scarce know what my words mean when I call Thee “God,” yet have mercy on me, and accept me, who am but “a worm and no man,” a mere speck in Thy creation, as a grain of sand upon the sea shore, “hardly to be accounted of” in Thy sight, sinful in flesh and spirit, “dust and ashes,” like “grass,” in sin conceived, and shapen in wickedness, unable to think or do anything that is good, beating upon my breast for the wickednesses that have gone over my head, the sins and offences of my youth and of my riper years, “a sore burden too heavy for me to bear.”

O God the Father, visit me though I be nothing, and a miserable worm, and unclean in