XIX. BAD AT BEST.

LORD, how come wicked thoughts to perplex me in my prayers, when I desire and endeavour only to attend thy service? 102Now I perceive the cause thereof; at other times I have willingly entertained them, and now they entertain themselves against my will. I acknowledge thy justice, that what formerly I have invited, now I cannot expel. Give me hereafter always to bolt out such ill guests. The best way to be rid of such bad thoughts in my prayers, is not to receive them out of my prayers.