Grace for the Repentant Heart
Confession and Assurance of Pardon
A Puritan Prayer
Make me understand, Lord, where I have gone wrong. Cause me to recognize my transgressions and my sin. Search me and try me, and then enable me to search and try myself and to see what is true, over and over. Remove whatever might make me blind, or narrow, or distracted. Light up my conscience. Let it faithfully represent your just charges against me. Do this for your glory and my good.
Hebrews 12:22-24 (ESV)
But we have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
- Rock of Ages by Thomas Hastings and Augustus Montague Toplady