A PRESENT SALVATION
CREATOR AND REDEEMER GOD,
Author of all existence,
source of all blessedness,
I adore thee
for making me capable of knowing thee,
for giving me reason and conscience,
for leading me to desire thee;
I praise thee
for the revelation of thyself in the gospel,
for thy heart as a dwelling place of pity,
for thy thoughts of peace towards me,
for thy patience and thy graciousness,
for the vastness of thy mercy.
创造与救赎的神，一切存在的创始者，各样祝福的源头，
我敬拜你，
因为你使我能够认识你，赐我理智与良知，引导我来渴慕你；
我赞美你，
因你在福音中启示你自己，
因你的心是怜悯的居所，
因你的意念是要赐我平安，
因你满有忍耐与恩慈，
因你的怜悯是何等广阔。
Thou hast moved my conscience to know how
the guilty can be pardoned,
the unholy sanctified,
the poor enriched.
May I be always amongst those
who not only hear but know thee,
who walk with and rejoice in thee,
who take thee at thy word and find life there.
你感动我明白，
有罪的可以得赦免，
污秽的可以得洁净，
贫穷的可以得丰富。
愿我常在他们当中，就是
那些不仅风闻由你，而且真知道你的人，
那些与你同行，且以你为乐的人，
那些确信你的话语，且从中找到生命的人。
Keep me always longing
for a present salvation in Holy Spirit comforts and rejoicings,
for spiritual graces and blessings,
for help to value my duties as well as my privileges.
May I cherish simplicity and godly sincerity of character.
Help me to be in reality before thee as in appearance I am before men,
to be religious before I profess religion,
to leave the world before I enter the church,
to set my affections on things above,
to shun forbidden follies and vanities,
to be a dispenser as well as a partaker of grace,
to be prepared to bear evil as well as to do good.
O God, make me worthy of this calling,
that the name of Jesus may be glorified in me and I in him.
求你让我常在圣灵的安慰与喜乐里，
渴慕得随时的拯救，
渴慕灵里的恩典与祝福，
渴慕看重我的责任，以及我的特权。
愿我珍惜单纯又敬虔的品格，
帮助我，真实地活在你面前，
就像我真实活在人面前一样，
认信以前就已敬虔，
进入教会以前就已撇下世界，
让我看重天上的事，
逃避你所禁止的愚昧和虚妄，
既领受恩典，也传播恩典，
预备行善，也预备受人苦待。
哦神啊，求你使我配得这呼召，
让耶稣的名在我里面得着荣耀，
我在祂里面也得着荣耀。
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