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Lament and Confess the Corruption of your Entire Being

Confession 2.5 | KJV

The corruption of the whole man: Irregular appetites towards those things that are pleasing to sense, and inordinate passions against those things that are displeasing, and an alienation of the mind from the principles, powers, and pleasures of the spiritual and divine life.

I am born of the flesh, and I am flesh. John 3:6(KJV) Dust I am: Genesis 3:19(KJV) I have borne the image of the earthy; 1 Corinthians 15:49(KJV) and in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For if to will is present to me, yet how to perform that which is good, I find not; for the good which I would do, I do it not; and the evil which I would not do, that I do. Romans 7:18-19(KJV)

I have a law in my members warring against the law of my mind and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin that is in my members; Romans 7:23(KJV) so that when I would do good, evil is present with me, Romans 7:21(KJV) and most easily besets me. Hebrews 12:1(KJV)

The whole head is sick, the whole heart is faint; from the sole of the foot, even unto the head, there is no soundness in me, but wounds and bruises and putrefying sores. Isaiah 1:5-6(KJV)

There is in me a bent to backslide from the living God: Hosea 11:7(KJV) My heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; who can know it? Jeremiah 17:9(KJV) It starts aside like a broken bow. Hosea 7:16(KJV)

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Lament and Confess your Vain Thoughts and Carnal Affections

Confession 2.4 | KJV

The vanity of my thoughts, their neglect of those things which they ought to be conversant with and dwelling upon those things that are unworthy of them and tend to corrupt my mind.

Every imagination of the thoughts of my heart is evil, only evil, and that continually, Genesis 6:5(KJV) and it has been so from my youth. Genesis 8:21(KJV)

O how long have those vain thoughts lodged within me! Jeremiah 4:14(KJV) those thoughts of foolishness which are sin! Proverbs 24:9(KJV) From within, out of the heart, proceed evil thoughts; Matthew 15:19(KJV) which devise mischief upon the bed, Micah 2:1(KJV) and carry the heart with the fool’s eyes into the ends of the earth. Proverbs 17:24(KJV)

But God is not in all my thoughts; Psalm 10:4(KJV) it is well if he be in any. Of the Rock that begat me, I have been unmindful and have forgotten the God that formed me: Deuteronomy 32:18(KJV) I have forgotten him days without number, Jeremiah 2:32(KJV) and my heart has walked after vanity and become vain. Jeremiah 2:5(KJV) My inward thought having been that my house should continue for ever; Psalm 49:11(KJV) this my way is my folly. Psalm 49:13(KJV)

The carnality of my affections, their being placed upon wrong objects and carried beyond due bounds.

I have set my affection on things beneath, which should have been set on things above, where my treasure is, Matthew 6:21(KJV) and where Christ sits on the right hand of God, Colossians 3:1-2(KJV) the things which I should seek.

I have followed after lying vanities and forsaken my own mercies; Jonah 2:8(KJV) have forsaken the fountain of living waters, for cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water. Jeremiah 2:13(KJV)

I have panted after the dust of the earth, Amos 2:7(KJV) and have been full of care what I shall eat and what I shall drink and wherewithal I shall be clothed, the things after which the Gentiles seek, and the righteousness thereof. Matthew 6:31-33(KJV)

I have lifted up my soul unto vanity, Psalm 24:4(KJV) and set my eyes upon that which is not; have looked at the things that are seen, which are temporal, but the things that are eternal have been forgotten and postponed. 2 Corinthians 4:18(KJV)

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Lament your Disposition to Evil and Confess your Blind Understanding and Stubborn Will

Confession 2.3 | KJV

I must lament my present corrupt disposition to that which is evil, and my indisposedness to and impotency in that which is good. I must look into my own heart and confess with holy blushing:

The blindness of my understanding and its unaptness to admit the rays of the divine light.

By nature my understanding is darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in me, because of the blindness of my heart. Ephesians 4:18(KJV)

The things of the Spirit of God are foolishness to the natural man, neither can I know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 1 Corinthians 2:14(KJV)

I am wise to do evil, but to do good I have no knowledge. Jeremiah 4:22(KJV) I know not, neither do I understand; I walk on in darkness. Psalm 82:5(KJV)

God speaketh once, yea, twice, but I perceive it not; Job 33:14(KJV) but hearing, I hear and do not understand; Matthew 13:14(KJV) and I see men as trees walking. Mark 8:24(KJV)

The stubbornness of my will and its unaptness to submit to the rules of the divine law.

I have within me a carnal mind, which is enmity against God and is not in subjection to the law of God, neither indeed can be. Romans 8:7(KJV)

Thou hast written to me the great things of thy law, but they have been accounted by me a strange thing; Hosea 8:12(KJV) and my corrupt heart has been sometimes ready to say, What is the Almighty, that I should serve him? Job 21:15(KJV) And that I would certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of my own mouth. Jeremiah 44:17(KJV) For I have walked in the way of my own heart and in the sight of my eyes, Ecclesiastes 11:9(KJV) fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind. Ephesians 2:3(KJV)

My neck hath been an iron sinew, Isaiah 48:4(KJV) and I have made my heart as an adamant stone; I have refused to hearken, have pulled away the shoulder, Zechariah 7:11-12(KJV) and stopped my ears like the deaf adder that will not hearken to the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely. Psalm 58:4-5(KJV)

How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof, and have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ear to them that instructed me. Proverbs 5:12-13(KJV)