...that is, like sheep who have deserted their shepherd, we have wandered from the paths of the Lord; " we have followed too " much the devices and desires of our own "hearts;" we have given ourselves too much up to the innate corruption of our nature, a corruption which we were born...

...conscience already smites you, and your own mouth must certainly condemn you. How often have you said, " We have offended against thy holy laws ! we have left...have done ! and we have done those things which we ought not to have done !" Probably you have often joined in the church- service, and said, after the...

...minister. ALMIGHTY and most merciful father ! \ve have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep ; we have followed too much the devices and desires...have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done. — But, we entreat thee, o GOD! to have mercy upon us, thine offending creatures....

...minister. ALMIGHTY and most merciful father ! we have erred and strayed from tby ways like lost sheep ; we have followed too much the devices and desires...holy laws ; we have left undone those things which we ought to have done ; and we have done those those things which we ought not to have done. — But,...

...shepherd's care, still inclined to stray ! How true an emblem of the weakness and frailty of man ! " We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts," This is, in fact, a plain avowal of a wicked and depraved nature : it is assumed, that the devices...

...kneeling. A LMIGHTYandmostmer-iJk ciiiil Father; We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires...have done ; And we have done those things which we ought not to have done : And there is no health in us. But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us, miserable...

...'read a page of history, or look into a hospital, without joining with our church in her confession that " we have followed too much " the devices and desires of our own hearts." A wibe and holy Being could not have made us what we are: some cause must be assigned, posterior to...

...our own use, When we say in our Liturgy, " We have erred and s rayed from thy ways like lost sheep; we have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts." Well might we have been left to wander till we had fallen a prey to the roaring lion that" eeketh to...

...our own use, when we say in our Liturgy, " We have erred and s.rayed from thy ways like lost sheep; we have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts." Well might we have been left to wander till we had fallen a prey to the roaring lion that -.eeketh...

...holy and just and good ;" but we, as we have often confessed with our lips, instead of obeying then), have " followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts ; we have oQènded against" these "holy laws; we have left undone those things which we ought to have done, and...