Help me to repent and love;
Help me to take the blessing given,
Help me quite from hell to heaven.”
Sunday 27. Mr. M——s preached on Matthew xi. 20, 30. Take my yoke upon you, &c. O what would I not give to be enabled so to do! But alas as yet I am like a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke. O Lord, help me this day to take thy sweet yoke upon me, and learn of thee, for I am truly convinced that till then, I shall never find rest to my poor soul. I have no objections to make, take me as I am, and let me be thine for ever.
“Take my body, spirit, soul,
Only thou possess the whole.”
Thursday 29. I went to five o’clock preaching. As I went my heart was raised to God, that he would please to bless his word to my soul; and indeed Mr. M—— gave a very profitable discourse on Ephesians vi. 10. Lord, help me so to put on the whole armour of God, that I may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all to stand.
Wednesday 30. I found my heart much broken on account of sin this evening in meeting my class. Lord, give me a broken and contrite heart, for such thou wilt not despise.
Thursday, May 1. Going a little earlier than usual to preaching, I took out my little bible, and found a peculiar sweetness in reading the lv. chapter of Isaiah.
Friday 2. I found great sweetness in reading and prayer. O for a watchful spirit to keep it.