*4. _Christian._ O Lord my God, thou art to me whatsoever is good. Who am I, that I dare speak unto thee? I am thy poorest servant and a most vile worm, much more poor and contemptible than I can express. *Yet remember, O Lord, that I am nothing, have nothing, and can do nothing. Thou alone art good, just, and holy: thou canst do all things, thou fillest all things, only the proud thou sendest empty away. *Remember thy mercies, and fill my heart with thy grace, thou who willest not that thy works shall be empty. 5. How can I bear myself, unless thou strengthenest me with thy mercy and grace? Turn not thy face from me; delay not thy visitation; take not away thy comfort, lest my soul become as the thirsty land. *Lord, teach me to fulfil thy will, teach me to live worthily and humbly in thy sight; for thou art my wisdom, thou dost truly know me, and didst know me before the world was made, and before I was born in the world. CHAPTER IV. _That we ought to live in truth and humility before God._ _Christ._ SON, walk before me in truth, and ever seek me in simplicity of heart. He that walketh before me in truth, shall be defended from evil; and the truth shall deliver him from seducers, and from the detractions of the wicked. If the truth have made thee free, thou shalt be free indeed. _Christian._ Lord, it is true. According as thou saidst, so I beseech thee let it be with me; let thy truth teach me, and keep me and bring me safe to an happy end. Let it deliver me from all evil affection and inordinate love: and I shall walk with thee in great freedom of heart. 2. _Christ._ I will teach thee those things that are right and pleasing in my sight. Think of thy sins with great displeasure and grief, and never esteem thyself any thing for thy good works. Thou art in very deed a sinner, thou art subject to, and encumbered with many passions. Of thyself thou always tendest to nothing: thou art quickly cast down, quickly overcome, quickly troubled, quickly dissolved. Thou hast nothing wherein thou canst glory, but many things for which thou oughtest to despise thyself; for thou art much weaker than thou art able to comprehend. 3. Make no account therefore of any thing that thou dost. Let nothing seem great, nothing precious and wonderful; let nothing seem worthy of estimation, nothing high, nothing truly praise-worthy and desirable, but that which is everlasting. Let the eternal truth above all things please thee. Let thy own great unworthiness always displease thee. Fear nothing, fly nothing so much as thy vices and sins. Some walk not sincerely in my sight: but will know my secrets, and understand the high things of God, neglecting themselves and their own salvation. These often, because I resist them, fall into great temptations and sins.