REGENERATION

O God of the highest heaven,

ccupy the throne of my heart,
take full possession and reign supreme,
   lay low every rebel lust,
   let no vile passion resist thy holy war;
   manifest thy mighty power,
      and make me thine forever.
Thou art worthy to be
   praised with my every breath,
   loved with my every faculty of soul,
   served with my every act of life.
Thou hast loved me, espoused me, received me,
   purchased, washed, favored, clothed,
      adorned me,
   when I was a worthless, vile soiled, polluted.
I was dead in iniquities,
   having no eyes to see thee,
   no ears to hear thee,
   no taste to relish thy joys,
   no intelligence to know thee;
But thy Spirit has quickened me,
   has brought me into a new world as a
      new creature,
   has given me spiritual perception,
   has opened to me thy Word as light, guide,
      solace, joy.
Thy presence is to me a treasure of unending peace;
No provocation can part me form thy sympathy,
   for thou hast drawn me with cords of love,
   and dost forgive me daily, hourly.
O help me then to walk worthy of thy love,
   of my hopes, and my vocation.
Keep me, for I cannot keep myself;
Protect me that no evil befall me;
Let me lay aside every sin admired of many;
Help me to walk by thy side, lean on thy arm,
   hold converse with thee,
That I may be salt of the earth
   and a blessing to all.

—from The Valley of Vision, Arthur Bennett, editor (Banner of Truth Trust, 2002).

salme 51 (Geneva Bible) To him that excelleth.
A Psalme of David, when the Prophet Nathan came unto him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba.
1 Have mercie vpon me, O God, according to thy louing kindnes: according to the multitude of thy compassions put away mine iniquities.
2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquitie, and clense me from my sinne.
3 For I know mine iniquities, and my sinne is euer before me.
4 Against thee, against thee onely haue I sinned, and done euill in thy sight, that thou mayest be iust when thou speakest, and pure when thou iudgest.
5 Beholde, I was borne in iniquitie, and in sinne hath my mother conceiued me.
6 Beholde, thou louest trueth in the inwarde affections: therefore hast thou taught mee wisedome in the secret of mine heart.
7 Purge me with hyssope, and I shalbe cleane: wash me, and I shalbe whiter then snowe.
8 Make me to heare ioye and gladnes, that the bones, which thou hast broken, may reioyce.
9 Hide thy face from my sinnes, and put away all mine iniquities.
10 Create in mee a cleane heart, O God, and renue a right spirit within me.
11 Cast mee not away from thy presence, and take not thine holy Spirit from me.
12 Restore to me the ioy of thy saluation, and stablish me with thy free Spirit.
13 Then shall I teache thy wayes vnto the wicked, and sinners shalbe conuerted vnto thee.
14 Deliuer me from blood, O God, which art the God of my saluation, and my tongue shall sing ioyfully of thy righteousnes.
15 Open thou my lippes, O Lord, and my mouth shall shewe foorth thy praise.
16 For thou desirest no sacrifice, though I would giue it: thou delitest not in burnt offering.
17 The sacrifices of God are a contrite spirit: a contrite and a broken heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
18 Bee fauourable vnto Zion for thy good pleasure: builde the walles of Ierusalem.
19 Then shalt thou accept ye sacrifices of righteousnes, euen the burnt offering and oblation: then shall they offer calues vpon thine altar.

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