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Unprofitable and fruitless are our assemblies when the Lord deserts us, and leaves us to ourselves, and to fight with our own ill hearts, when we are about so great and so good a work as this—to honor the name of the Lord our God, and to help forward, in some degree and measure, the estate of our own souls.
But if so be that the Lord be pleased to descend, and to enter into our hearts by his Spirit, through Jesus Christ, then we will be able to do a great and a glorious work. And therefore, great need had we to be earnest with the Lord, that he would assist us at these times, and quickly to do it, that so our days be not spent before this work of our salvation be begun. And therefore, let us now, from the sense and feeling of our wants and need, and from confidence in his goodness and mercy, humble ourselves before the Lord our God, and beg his Spirit, and entreat him to be present with us at this time.