5. How can I bear myself, unless thou strengthenest me with thy mercy and grace?
Turn not thy face from me; delay not thy visitation; take not away thy comfort, lest my soul become as the thirsty land.
*Lord, teach me to fulfil thy will, teach me to live worthily and humbly in thy sight; for thou art my wisdom, thou dost truly know me, and didst know me before the world was made, and before I was born in the world.
CHAPTER IV.
That we ought to live in truth and humility before God.
Christ.SON, walk before me in truth, and ever seek me in simplicity of heart.
He that walketh before me in truth, shall be defended from evil; and the truth shall deliver him from seducers, and from the detractions of the wicked.
If the truth have made thee free, thou shalt be free indeed.
Christian. Lord, it is true. According as thou saidst, so I beseech thee let it be with me; let thy truth teach me, and keep me and bring me safe to an happy end.