3. The Uses
The corruption, which in this petition we ought to mourn for, is the continual rebellion of our wicked natures; and our proneness to yield ourselves up in every temptation to sin and Satan. And the remnants of the old bondage under Satan must be grievous and irksome to us, and we must bewail them bitterly. The Jews in a bodily captivity, wept when they remembered Zion (Psalm 1:27). How much more should we weep, when we feel the law of our members rebelling against the law of our minds, and leading [reconstructed: us] captive to sin.
