Robert Hawker: Piercing Heaven – Puritan’s Prayers

Oh blessed Spirit, to whom I owe such unspeakable mercies, let me, Lord, contemplate you today as the gracious, kind, compassionate Comforter.

For you are the Holy Spirit, the Comforter. And with mercy you sympathize with all the followers of Jesus in our afflictions, both of soul and body.

How tenderly you show us our sins, and lead us to the blood of Jesus to wash them away.

How sweetly you visit, encourage, strengthen, instruct, lead, and guide us into all truth.

And how powerfully at times, by your restraining grace, you enable us to put to death the deeds of the body, that we may live.

Holy, blessed, almighty Comforter! Continue your visits to us. Come, Lord, and abide with me, and be with me forever. Prove that you are the Sent of the Father, and of the Son, by coming to me in the name of Jesus, by teaching me all the precious things concerning Jesus, and by acting as the one who reminds us of Jesus.

In you and by your blessed work, I may know and live in the sweet enjoyment of fellowship with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ, through the influence of the Holy Ghost, the Comforter.

Amen.