Come, Holy Spirit, with all your sweet and precious favor.
Come, Lord, to convince and comfort me, to humble and direct me, to chill my affections to the world, and to warm them toward Jesus.Come, you holy, gracious, almighty reviver and restored–and glorifier of my God and Savior!
Cause the graces you have planted in my soul to go forth in a way of love and desire, faith and expectation. Let me hope in the person and glory of the one my soul loves. Then I will cry out with the church, “Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat of his pleasant fruits.” Amen!
Robert Hawker, as cited in Piercing Heaven: Prayers of the Puritans, Robert Elmer, ed.
