The Fifth of August.

CREATE IN ME A CLEAN HEART --- Psalm 51:10.

"Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me." --- Psalm 51:10.

See God's answer in Ezekial 11:19, 20. A glorious promise, which may be relied on, and will certainly be fulfilled, if heartily pleaded in prayer. "Blessed are the pure in heart; for they shall see God." --- Matthew 5:8.

In regard to justification, we are pefectly clean by Christ's atonement; but in regard to sanctification, our hearts are not perfectly clean yet, but we have still need to pray, "Create in me a clean heart." Amen. O Lord, may thy blood and Spirit cleanse and sanctify me thoroughly from all my sins. Amen.

Bless'd with the joys of innocence,
Adam our father stood;
Till he debased his soul to sense,
An ate th' unlawful food.

Now we are born a sensual race
To sinful joys inclined:
Reason has lost its native place,
And flesh enslaves the mind.

Great God, renew our ruin'd frame,
Our broken powers restore;
Inspire us with a heavenly flame,
And flesh shall reign no more.

Eternal Spirit, write thy law
Upon our inward parts;
And let the second Adam draw,
His image on our hearts.