{"id":9,"date":"2010-03-09T20:22:19","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T01:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/?p=9"},"modified":"2010-03-09T20:33:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T01:33:47","slug":"a-present-salvation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/2010\/03\/09\/a-present-salvation\/","title":{"rendered":"A Present Salvation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the closing lines from this Puritan Prayer from The Valley of Vision.\u00a0 What a great way to live!<\/p>\n<p>Help me to be in reality before thee as in appearance I am before men,<br \/>\nto be religious before I profess religion,<br \/>\nto leave the world before I enter the church,<br \/>\nto set my affections on things above,<br \/>\nto shun forbidden follies and vanities,<br \/>\nto be a dispenser as well as a partaker of grace,<br \/>\nto be prepared to bear evil as well as to do good.<\/p>\n<p>O God, make me worthy of this calling,<br \/>\nthat the name of Jesus may be glorified in me and I in him.<\/p>\n<p>From The Valley of Vision, a collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the closing lines from this Puritan Prayer from The Valley of Vision.\u00a0 What a great way to live! 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&hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"readmore-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/2010\/03\/09\/a-present-salvation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read <\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,8,5,6,198],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-valley-of-vision","tag-church","tag-grace","tag-puritan-prayer","tag-religion","tag-valley-of-vision"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1MnZf-9","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}