Let us turn again to the Word
of God in the portion that we were considering this morning
in Matthew chapter 14. And I'll read again from verse
22 through to verse 33. A lengthy passage but this is
the portion that we were taking particular account of this morning.
Matthew 14 at verse 22 following. And straightway Jesus constrained
His disciples to get into a ship, and to go before Him onto the
other side, while He sent the multitudes away. And when He
had sent the multitudes away, He went up into a mountain apart
to pray. And when the evening was come,
He was there alone. But the ship was now in the midst
of the sea, tossed with the waves, for the wind was contrary, And
in the fourth watch of the night, Jesus went unto them walking
on the sea. And when the disciples saw him
walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit. And they cried out for fear.
But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer,
it is I. Be not afraid. And Peter answered
him and said, Lord, if it be thou bid me come unto thee on
the water. And he said, Come. And when Peter
was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water to go
to Jesus. But when he saw the wind boisterous,
he was afraid. And beginning to sink, he cried,
saying, Lord, save me. And immediately Jesus stretched
forth his hand and caught him and said unto him, O thou of
little faith, Wherefore didst thou doubt? And when they were
coming to the ship, the wind ceased. Then they that were in
the ship came and worshipped him, saying of a truth, Thou
art the Son of God." Well, this morning we were considering
more particularly that prayer of faith of Simon Peter That
remarkable prayer, just three words at the end of verse 30,
Lord, save me. And now we remark that there
was a sense in which it was mixed with unbelief. The Lord rebukes him at the end
of verse 31, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt? There was certainly doubt mixed
in with faith in the heart of Simon Peter. He was so bold in
coming out of the ship, walking on the waters to go to the Lord
Jesus, but then his eye distracted, turning from the Lord, he sees
the wind, boisterous, and he was greatly afraid. Or there was faith, and yet that
faith was mixed with unbelief, with doubts, and with fears. And so often that is the case,
how comforting when we think of those words that we have from
the lips of the centurion who brought his demon-possessed son
to the Lord Jesus. He came in faith, but what does
he say to the Lord? Lord, I believe, help thou mine
unbelief. And do we not sometimes have
to confess that we feel that we're a little more than believing
unbelievers at times? Such a strange mix in the hearts
of those who are the children of God. Here is a man then who
is afraid of the other disciples, He's full of doubts and yet,
at the same time, he has faith. And it is a true faith. The Lord
does not disown his faith. He doesn't say that he has no
faith. He says, although of little faith,
it's faith. And it's a genuine article, but
there might be but a small amount of it. Faith is a grain of mustard
seeds, as the Lord says later in chapter 17. And even that
small faith the mustard seed, the smallest of all seeds, remember.
And yet just a grain of a mustard seed and faith of that size and
yet you can say to this mountain, departs, go into younger seed
and it obeys. All this faith was a very real
faith. And we see it of course in the
language of prayer. This is a language of faith when
a man is brought to utter those three simple words, Lord, save
me. Or isn't that the denial of any
creature strength? Isn't that the denial of all
creature religion? All duty, faith, only the Lord
can say, Lord, save me. It's a recognition of who Jesus
Christ is, that Christ is God. I can avouch, and for his people
cares, since I have prayed to him as such, and he has heard
my prayers. And now the Lord hears and answers
his prayer. Immediately, it says. And immediately
Jesus stretched forth his hand and caught him. And then when
they were coming to the ship, how quickly he is safe and secure
now again in the ship. Well, we looked this morning
at the prayer of Simon Peter and something of the character
of Simon Peter as it unfolded to us in this particular incident. Now, tonight I want us to move
on and to consider more particularly the end of this passage and that
confession that we have Not only Peter, but all the other disciples
together with him. As we read there at verse 33,
taking these words at verse 33 in particular for our text, Then
they that were in the ship came and worshipped him, saying of
a truth, Thou art the Son of God. What do we have here? This
is the confession of faith. And what is this confession of
faith? It is a confession of the deity, of the Lord Jesus
Christ. It is owning and acknowledging
the Lord Jesus Christ to be God, of a truth. Thou art the Son
of God. Well, coming then to consider
the words of the text, I want in the first place to observe
the context again. Now important it is, I say this
time and again, when we come to the Word of God, we're to
be mindful of the context in which God's Word is set. We're
not to tear words out of context. We do that sometimes and make
a pretext out of the Word of God. It is important that we
always take account of what they call the analogy of faith and
see things as they are in the context in which God has set
his words. Now, what do we have here? Well,
we have three remarkable miracles. And it is those three miracles
that bring forth this confession. It's what these men have just
witnessed. Three miracles. Now, what were
the three miracles? First of all, there is that of
the Lord Jesus Christ walking on the water remember how the
Lord is sending the multitudes away as we're told in the account in
John chapter 6 there in the opening part of John 6 He performed the
miracle of the feeding of the 5,000 men only besides the women
and the children and they want to take him and make him a king and he's sending them away. He's
going to go into the mountain by himself to pray. He's living
the life of faith. And before he goes into the mountain
he constrains his disciples to get into a ship and to go before
him over to the other side of the lake, the Sea of Galilee. But then the Lord is there alone
in the mountain praying, and we're told at verse 25, "...in
the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking
on the sea. And when the disciples saw him
walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit. And they cried out for fear."
Now this is a truly remarkable miracle that the Lord is performing.
I referred this morning to Job chapter 9, and surely this is
in mind of the Lord in this miracle that He is performing. If we
turn back to the book of Job and what Job is saying there
in that ninth chapter, we see how he is making reference to
gods and the attributes that belong unto gods. speaks of God's power and God's
wisdom and God's justice. All the greatness that belongs
unto Him, wise in heart, mighty in strength. Verse 5, Job says,
Which removeth the mountains, and they know not, which overturneth
them in his anger, which shaketh the earth out of her place, and
the pillars thereof tremble, which commandeth the sun, and
it riseth not, and sealeth up the stars, which alone spreadeth
out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea. Verse
10. Which doeth great things past
finding out, yea, and wonders without number. Here is the mark
of God. God treadeth upon the waves of
the sea. And who is this? Why, this is
God. of a truth. Thou art the Son
of God. Oh, this is such a remarkable
miracle that they are witnessing and it makes an impression. And
that was the intention of the miracles. These miracles, as
John constantly reminds us in his Gospel, these miracles are
signs. And signs that are pointing very
definitely to the Lord Jesus, His beginning of signs did Jesus
in Cana of Galilee and manifested forth His glory. And His disciples
believed on Him. When the Lord turns the water
into wine, He manifests His glory and they believe on Him. Oh, it is truly a great, a remarkable
miracle, that Christ should come to them in the midst of the storm,
walking upon the waters. And then, even Peter begins to
walk upon the waters. Oh, they see him, and they're
full of fear, and the Lord speaks to them in verse 27, Be of good
cheer, it is I been, I'm afraid. And Peter answered him and said,
Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water and he
said come and when Peter was come down out of the ship he
walked on the water to go to Jesus it's all part and parcel
of this miracle how is it that Peter can walk on the water because
the Lord bids him Lord the Lord utters that remarkable word he
said come and you know come is one of the greatest words in
all of the Gospel. In some ways it's almost the
very last word in all the Book of God. There in Revelation 22,
the Spirit and the Bride say, Come. And let him that heareth
say, Come. And let him that is athirst,
Come. And whosoever will, let him take
of the water of life, Freely. That is the language of the gospel.
God says in the gospel, come. And how different to what God
says in the law there in Exodus 19, God says, stand back, touch
not the mount. Or the language of graciously. How God speaks so graciously,
inviting sinners to come. And He says to those Jews, ye
will not come to me. Ye will not come to me. that
she may have life but all that the Father giveth me shall come
to me and neither cometh to me I shall in no wise cast out or
the Lord loves coming sinners we do but come you see the Lord
will receive all that come all that come unto God by him and
this is what Peter does and what is the outcome Peter is saved
Lord Peter's prayer was, Lord save me, and the Lord saved him.
The prayer of faith shall save, says James. We do not seek his face in vain. What a remarkable miracle then
is this, the Lord walking on the water. What is the second
miracle here? Well, we've already hinted at
it in a sense. It's the way in which the Lord
saves Peter. Here is Peter and his eye taken off the Lord
Jesus. He saw the wind boisterous, it
says, and he was afraid. Oh, he initially is looking on
to Jesus. Look unto me and be ye saved,
all the ends of the earth, for I am God and there is none else."
The language of the prophet Isaiah. And then Paul, remember Hebrews
12, 2, looking unto Jesus, looking away unto Jesus, taking our eyes
off every other object, looking only unto Jesus, the author and
the finisher of our faith. Peter used to He sees the winds,
boisterous. He's aware of everything around
him, all that's going on, and how often we're like that. How
things are crowding upon us. We fail to be looking always
onto Jesus, so easily deflected from that look of faith. And
then we begin to sink, do we not? Circumstances, or they come
into our hearts and And we wonder, where will the scene end? What
am I to do? Oh, it's that looking onto Jesus. And here is Peter, but in the
agony of his soul, he thinks he's going to drown. Beginning
to sink. Lord, save me, Christ. And immediately. Immediately,
Jesus stretched forth his hand and caught him. Oh, there's the
miracle. How the Lord saves. Before they
call, I will answer. Whilst they are yet speaking,
I will hear. The Lord answers prayers. The
Lord answers prayers. And here we see there's an immediacy
with regards to the response of the Lord. Now, I know it's
not always like that. when we think of an incident
so similar in some ways, the Canaanite-ish woman that we read
of in the following chapter, in chapter 15. And there at verse 21 following, Behold, it says in verse 22,
a woman of Canaan came out of the same coast and cried unto
him, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David, my daughter
is grievously vexed with the devil." And the Lord doesn't
answer her immediately. And then the disciples say, send
her away, she's a trouble. But she will not be denied, as
she perseveres and presses on, or if she seek me. You are to
seek Me with all your heart. You shall seek Me and find Me,
says the Lord, when you shall search after Me with all your
heart. And this is what the Lord is
doing here. Yes, He doesn't always answer immediately, but He's
drawing out this woman. How He draws this woman out. He says to her, I am not sent
but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. She's a Canaanite
woman. And the Canaanites cut off from
the congregation of the Lord forever, it says in the Old Testament.
That's law, of course. But here's the gospel, here's
the New Testament of the grace of God. Oh, when she comes to him, what
does she do? She worships him. Saying, Lord,
help me. It's so similar to Peter's prayer. It's another one of these short
prayers, these pithy prayers. You tell me it's so hard sometimes
to pray. It is hard to pray. But can we not utter these prayers
that we find on the page of Scripture? Why are these things written?
Oh, they're written for our learning, that we through patience and
comfort of the Scriptures All the patience, the endurance,
the comfort of the scriptures, these things are written for
us, for our learning, that we might have hope. And can we not
take up these biblical prayers? Lord, save me, Lord, help me. And what does the Lord say to
this woman? Oh woman, great is thy faith. Oh, this woman's faith is great.
Why? How the Lord had put that faith
to the test in all the dealings that He has with her there in
that passage in the 15th chapter from verse 21 following. It's the Lord drawing out the
faith of that woman and she worships the Lord Jesus. It's the same
with another Gentile, the centurion back in chapter 8 who wants the Lord to heal his
sick son, but it's enough for the Lord simply to say the word.
He doesn't have to go with the man, simply say the word. And the Lord says, verily I have
not found so great faith, no, not in Israel. All these Gentiles, these outcasts, Those that the
Jews so despised, you see. And yet the Lord has such a gracious
ministry. Lord, the Gospel is a Gospel
for great sinners. The Lord saves Peter. And it's
a miracle. He walks on the waters. Peter is sinking. He saves Peter
and immediately it seems safe and secure again in the boats. And then of course the third
of the miracles that we have here in the context is that stilling
of the storm. When they would come into the
ship the wind ceased it says. The wind ceased. It reminds us
of the language of the Psalmist. The words that we have there
in the 107th Psalm He maketh the storm a calm, so that the
waves thereof are still. Then are they glad, because they
be quiet. So He bringeth them unto their
desired haven. Oh, He makes the storm a calm. He brings His people to their
desired haven. That's what He does. In all the
storms of life, all those things that come upon you, all those
things that crowd you, maybe this coming week, there are things
that trouble you. There's much that happens that's
so perplexing to us. But the Lord hears prayers, and
the Lord is able, you see, to calm the storm. Already not on
a previous occasion, performed just such a miracle as this.
We refer to it this morning there in the 8th chapter, verse 23, and the following verse
is, when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed
him. And we're told, Behold, there
arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was
covered with the waves, but he was asleep. And his disciples
came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us. We perish. So, similar to Peter's prayer. And these men, of course, they
were experienced fishermen. They knew those waters of the
Sea of Galilee, and yet here they are. It's a great storm,
and they fear that they're going to be sunk. They're going to
drown. And again he says to them, Why
are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose and rebuked
the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm. And the men
marveled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the
winds and the sea obey him? O this is the Lord Jesus Christ,
And all these miracles are so significant because it's these
things that make such an impression upon His disciples when they come into the ship, the
wind ceases, and then they that were in the ship came and worshipped
Him, saying, Of a truth thou art the Son of God, or the worshipper. the worship of these his disciples. So let us consider in the second
place having looked at the context, having considered the previous
miracles and the significance of the miracles and the impression
that these make to turn now to their worship, they worship him.
Now God is the one that is to be worshipped. In his temptations doesn't the
Lord say to Satan thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and
him only shalt thou serve." And think of the language of the
angel to John there in Revelation 19 where John is rebuked and
he's told quite plainly, worship God. Revelation 19.10, "...I fell
at his feet that is, at the feet of the angel who had showed John
these things, I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto
me, See thou do it not? I am thy fellow servant and of
thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the
testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. And what are these
men doing in the ship? They are worshiping. the Lord
Jesus of the truth, they say, thou art the Son of God. John was rebuked by the angel. Now, remember out here also we
see that the Lord rebukes Peter even as he saves him. He caught
him and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst
thou doubt? Peter is rebuked. All of the
disciples were rebuked back in that 8th chapter where he stills
the storm. He says to each and to all of
them, there in verse 26 of that chapter, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little
faith? Then he arose and rebuked the
winds and the sea and there was a great calm. John's rebuked,
Peter's rebuked, they're all rebuked. There's a sense in which,
and again I emphasize what I was trying to emphasize this morning,
we see that there is that that is weak about the faith of these
men. Or we see them as those who were
the first disciples of the Lord Jesus and they were they were
remarkable men but they were what they were only by the grace
of God and there was much that they didn't understand and so
often they they're seen to be men of like passions to ourselves
doesn't James say that of the great prophet Elijah, a man of
like passions as ourselves these men, they're saints, oh
I know there are those who recognize them as saints in their own peculiar
sense, but they are saints only in this sense really, that they
are those who have had an experience of the grace of God. All believers are saints, in that sense. But even these
saintly men, we might say, are so often men whose faith is wanting,
whose faith is weak. They have doubts and fears, they
make mistakes. Peter so often, in his impulsive
way, doesn't act the right and says words that are quite foolish,
and the Lord has to rebuke him, even addressing him in chapter
16 as Satan, because he is speaking against the Lord's crucifixion,
and that was the very purpose for which Christ came into the
world. Be that far from me, Lord, he said. Get thee behind me,
Satan. Thou savest not the things that
be of God, but those that be of men, says the Lord." And yet we have to recognize
that although at times their faith is little, or little faith,
let us not despise this, their faith is little, and yet it is
so real. And we see this here in this
great confession. And it is a great confession.
They worshipped Him. saying of the truth, Thou art
the Son of God. Oh, they brought to acknowledge
you Jesus of Nazareth. What are they confessing? They
are confessing His deity. They are confessing the truth
of His eternal Sonship. He is the Son of God. He is the
Son of God. All that that means And this
is such an important truth that has to be confessed. We see it in the way in which
the Lord deals with that man that was born blind. In John
chapter 9, remember the Jews had decreed that if any man said
that Jesus of Nazareth was the Christ, he was to be cast out
of the synagogue, excommunicated. And this man, he was born blind,
he'd received his sight from Christ. And he would not deny
him, but he didn't know really who this man was. Oh, it was a marvelous thing that this man had experienced.
And yet he didn't know who this man was. And we're told There
at verse 35, Jesus heard that they had cast him out. When he
had found him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son
of God? Oh, there's the question. Dost
thou believe on the Son of God? He answered and said, Who is
he, Lord, that I might believe on him? And Jesus said unto him,
Thou hast both seen him, and it is he that talketh with thee."
And he said, Lord, I believe, and he worshipped him. It's the
same worship, you see. It's the same confession. And
it's an important confession. Dost thou believe on the Son
of God? It's that same confession that
we have in chapter 16 Peter at Caesarea Philippi, when
the Lord asked what men are saying, but not so much what others are
saying concerning the identity of Jesus, but what are you disciples
saying? And it is Peter who says, Thou
art the Christ, the Son of the Living God. Thou art the Christ. the Son of the Living God. And I was struck recently in
reading, I was reading actually in the Puritan Thomas Goodwin, and
he makes a fascinating observation concerning that confession. He
points out that in the original there are really four definite
articles. And he translates it literally
like this. Peter says to Jesus, Thou art
the Christ, the Son of the God, the Living. That's his literal
rendering and that's how it stands in the original. Thou art the
Christ, the Son of the God, the living. And the Puritan says,
concerning those four definite articles, he says, there are
so many stars that call us to behold the eminency of Christ's
sonship and generation. There is such an emphasis, says
the Puritan, upon that last expression, the living. Of course, it's translated
rightly in our English idiom, thou art the Christ, the Son
of the living God. But there's an emphasis there.
He is the living God. It shows, therefore, that the
generation, the Sonship of the Lord Jesus Christ, is the same
kind, the same nature, the same substance as that of the Father. That is the significance. It
is simply confessing that the Son is God. He is very God, of
very God, in the language of the Cretes. He is the Son of
the Father in truth and in love. That's the language of the second
epistle of John. I remember the Lord Jesus in
John chapter 5 when the Jews wanted to stone him. He performed
a miracle on the Sabbath day and they said he desecrated the
Sabbath in their foolish understanding of what the Sabbath was. But
it wasn't only that. He'd also referred to God as
his Father. And there in John 5 verse 18
He said also that God was his father, making himself equal
with God. And again, the Puritan brings
out the strength of the original because it literally says that
he was claiming to be God's own son. He said also that God was
his own father. And that word own, you see, his
own father. making himself equal with God. He was God's son in a very special
and peculiar sense, as none other is God's son. The angels might
be referred to as the sons of God. The saved are referred to
as the sons of God, sons by adoption. But what of the Lord Jesus Christ?
Well, the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld
His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father. He is the only begotten of the
Father, the only generated of the Father. He is the Son of
God. He is of the very same likeness
and substance as the Father, He is God. And that is the confession,
that is the confession that these disciples are making. And that's the confession that
Peter is making again in chapter 16, not just the Christ, Jesus
of Nazareth, He's not just the Promised One, the Messiah, the
Christ of God, He is the Son of God. He is the Son of God. Dost thou believe on the Son
of God? How the Father acknowledges Him
as His Son? Do we have that? Do we not? We looked at it previously there
in the 2nd Psalm. Thou art my Son, says God. Thou
art my Son. This day have I begotten thee. This day, today, have I begotten
thee. Today implies neither a yesterday
nor a tomorrow, but always a present time, says Luther. He is the
Son. He neither began to be born nor
will He ever cease to be born. He is ever being born. He is
the Eternal Son. Or today, says the Puritan, is
the style of eternity. That is God's day. God's day
is eternity. Thou art my Son. This day Have
I begotten thee? Oh, it's that mystery of the
doctrine of God. The God, His Father, God, His
Son, God, His Holy Spirit, God, His three persons, and yet there
are not three gods. There is one God, and the one
God subsists in those three persons. and this is what men have to
recognize and to acknowledge and to confess that Jesus of
Nazareth is the Christ but more than that he is the Son of God.
Whosoever transgresses and abides not in the doctrine of Christ
hath not God. He that abides in the doctrine
of Christ he hath both the Father and the Son says John. Now, you might say, why am I
laboring this point? Why do I keep laboring this point? Well, go back to chapter 16,
and verse 18, and what the Lord says after that confession of
Peter's. I say unto thee that thou art
Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates
of hell shall not prevail against it. What is the rock? upon which
the Lord says his church is going to be built. Well, the rock is
not Simon Peter. The rock is Peter's confession. Other foundation can no man lay
than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ the Lord. And what is that rock? What is that confession? We see
quite clearly there in that verse that the doctrine of Christ and
his eternal sonship are the prime, the essential foundations of
the Church. This is the basis of all sound
doctrine, the basis of all saving faith. It is the rock on which
the very church is built. That's why the Lord says to that
man born blind who has now received his sight, thus thou believe
on the Son of God. It's a vital truth. The Sonship,
the eternal Sonship of the Lord Jesus Christ is bound up with
His person, it's who He is. He is the Son of the Father in
truth. and in love, but He is also the
Son of Man. He is God manifest in the flesh,
the Child born, the Son given in the language of Isaiah chapter
9. But closely, closely bound up
with that doctrine of the person of the Lord Jesus Christ is the
work of the Lord Jesus Christ. because remember how the Lord
continues there in chapter 16 after all these remarkable events
at Caesarea Philippi and Peter's confession verse 21 from that time forth
when Peter had made that acknowledgement thou art the Christ the Son of
the Living God from that time forth began Jesus to show unto
his disciples that he must go on to Jerusalem and suffer many
things of the elders and chief priests and scribes and be killed
and be raised again the third day." Not just the person of the Lord
Jesus Christ, it's the work. It's the work of the Lord Jesus
Christ. It's what he came to do. And he came to do the will of
the Father who had sent him. He must be obedient and he must
be obedient unto death. Therefore does my Father love
me because I lay down my life that I might take it again. No
man taketh it from me. I have power to take it, to lay
it down. I have power to take it again.
This commandment, this commandment have I received of my Father. His work, and that work is a
work of obedience. It's the person of Christ. It's
the work of Christ. And the person and work of Christ,
I say, is the very foundation of the Church. It is the foundation
of all sound doctrine. It is the foundation of all saving
faith. And it is the antidote. The antidote
to sin the antidote of all fear, or that the Lord might then come
and speak to us as we have it here in verse 27. Straightway
Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer, it is I. Be not afraid. When the Lord
says to us, It is I, or the Eternal Son of God. the only saviour
of sinners, till God in human flesh I see, my thoughts no comfort
find. The holy, just and sacred three
are terrors to my mind. Ought to be those then who would
desire to consider the Lord Jesus Christ. What think ye of Christ? Or what
do we think of the Lord Jesus Christ? Do we desire to be those
who are the true worshippers of Him, like these disciples?
They worshipped Him, saying of a truth, Thou art the Son of
God. It's profound. Or what doctrine
it is when we come to consider just who Christ is? And when
we think of all that great work that the Lord Jesus Christ accomplished
here upon the earth, why we just sang that lovely hymn of Gadsby's,
did we not? And I think of those words at the end of the hymn,
that little couplet in verse 4, O that my soul could love
and praise him more, his beauty's trace his majesty adore. Is that our prayer? I trust it
might be our prayer. I hope it's my prayer. to take
up that language of dear Gadsby concerning the Lord Jesus, the
desires of his own soul. Oh, that my soul could love and
praise him more, his beauty's trace, his majesty adore. They that were in the ship were
told they came and worshipped him saying of a truth, thou art
the Son of God. May the Lord be pleased then
to bless His truth to us. Amen. Our final hymn this evening is
1076. I see thee full of truth and
grace, and come, for all I want to see, wrathful, impure, and
proud I am, nor constancy nor strength I have. But thou, O Lord, art still the
same, and hast not lost thy power to save. 1076. Jesus, in whom the Godhead reigns,
lead forth with mildest majesty. I see thee fall. and praise and come for all I
want to be. Wrathful, impure, and proud I
am. No constancy, no strength I have. and has not lost thy power to
save. Save me from pride and plague
repair, Jesus, thy humble mind impart. let the spirits within
me dwell and give me holiness of heart. Enter thyself and cast
out sin, more of thy pure The grace of the Lord Jesus and the communion of the Holy
Ghost be with you all. Amen.