The Inner Life Drawn Toward God
Uses the historical contrast of soul and flesh to ask for deliverance from lower impulses and closeness to God.
Historical edition. Historical claims and instructions are preserved as historical context.
ALMIGHTY GOD! Thou Who art the Life of all life, who hast made man from the dust, and Thyself hast breathed into him the breath of life, help us in the strife between the soul and sense, between the earthly and that which is divine. When the lower life within us seeks to join itself to the dust whence it came, then, in that, the soul’s sore need, Good Lord, deliver us! And when that which is heavenly in us, conscious that its origin is in Thee, strives to raise itself from these fetters of flesh, do Thou, Lord God, draw us gently, mightily towards Thyself. And this we do ask, in the name of Christ Jesus our Lord,—AMEN.