...Christ Jesus, in whose name we offer up these our imperfect prayers. WEDNESDAY MORNING. Cotterill. ALMIGHTY and most merciful Father, we have erred and...to 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...

...Minister, all kneeling: ALMIGHTY and most merciful Father; •**• We have erred, and strayed from thy way like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices...to have done; And we have done those things which we ought not to have done ; And there is no health in us. But thou, О Lord, have mercy upon us, miserable...

...mourn as He would have us ? In the confession in which we joined an hour ago, while we repeated, " we have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost...devices and desires of our own hearts — we have oflended against thy holy laws — we have left undone those things which we ought to have done, and...

...congregation, he will constantly begin the sacred office by an act of hypocrisy, in saying, " Ahnighty Father, we have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have oflended against thy holy laws. There is no health in us. But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us, miserable...

...the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, etc. • 89 PRAYER XXIX. FROM THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. Morning. Almighty and most merciful Father, we have erred and...to have done ; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done ; and there is no health us. But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us, miserable...

...it. . EXERCISE XX. THE CONFESSION FROM THE EPISCOPAL SERVICE. Almighty and most merciful Father,—we have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep....to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done : and there is no health in us. But thou, 0 Lord, have mercy upon us, miserable...

...that our iniquities are increased over our head and our trespass is gone up into the very heavens. We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost...have followed too much the devices and desires of our owr. hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone the things we ought to have...

...•with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and thy neighbour as thyself." How have we broken God's laws ? " We have left undone those things which we...to have done, and we have done those things which we ought not to have done." What do we mean by saying, there is no health in us 2 Sin is the same thing...

...sustained note, arid which the reader would use were he to continue it without such interruption. ' Almighty and most merciful Father' we have erred and strayed from thy ways' like lost sheep.' These last two words are often run into one another, and pronounced as if they were but one; instead...

...much, for they have turned the lamps, kindled of God, to be the light of the world, into darkness. " We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts." " We have left undone that which we ought to have done, and we have done that which we ought not to have done."...