Be renewed in the spirit of your mind. Ephesians 4:23.
O Lord, grant that I may daily and hourly repent, have evermore a tender feeling of my sins and so renew my baptismal covenant, that by the power of thy death, the old man may be crucified, and by the power of thy resurrection the new man may rise up and grow more and more every morning. Let me ever be in true earnest, and look upon every day as the very first and the very last, that with each I may, as it were, begin anew to work out my salvation with fear and trembling, and so be always prepared for death and eternity. Give me grace to surmount all difficulties, and to avoid every thing which may prove a torment of conscience in the hour of death. And as there is no standing still, I humbly beseech thee to stir me up daily and hourly, more and more, that I may make all haste and save my soul.
Lord, I am vile, conceived in sin,
And born unholy and unclean;
Sprung from the man whose guilty fall,
Corrupts our race and taints us all.
Soon as we draw our infant breath
The seeds of sin grow up for death:
The law demands a perfect heart;
But we’re defiled in every part.
Great God, create my heart anew,
And form my spirit pure and true;
O make me wise betimes to spy
My danger and my remedy.