John Bunyan: Piercing Heaven – Puritan’s Prayers

O Lord, I am a fool, and not able to know the truth from error. Leave me not to my own blindness, either to approve of or condemn this doctrine. If it be of God, let me not despise it. If it be of the devil, let me not embrace it.

Lord, I lay my soul in this matter only at your feet. Let me not be deceived, I humbly beseech you.

Lord, Satan tells me that neither your mercy nor Christ’s blood is sufficient to save my soul. Lord, will I honor you most, by believing you will and you can? Or him, by believing you neither will nor can?

Lord, I will gladly honor you by believing you will and can.

I am for going on, and venturing my eternal state with Christ—whether I have comfort here or not. If you do not come in I will leap off the ladder, even blindfolded, into eternity. Sink or swim, come heaven, or come hell—Lord Jesus, if you will catch me, do.

If not, I will venture for your name.

Amen.