THE ORDER FOR

MORNING PRAYER,

DAILY THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.

At the beginning of Morning Prayer the Minister shall read with a loud voice some one or more of these Sentences of the Scriptures that follow. And then he shall say that which is written after the said Sentences.

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HEN the wicked man anger, lest thou bring me to turneth away from nothing. his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive. Ezek. xviii, 27.

before me.

I acknowledge my trans­gressions, and my sin is ever Psalm li. 3. Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.

Psalm li. 9. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. Psalm li. 17.

Jer. x. 24. Psalm vi. 1. Repent ye; for the King­dom of Heaven is at hand.

St. Matth. iii, 2.

I will arise, and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, and am no more wor­thy to be called thy son.

St. Luke xv. 18, 19. Enter not into judgement with thy servant, O Lord; for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

Psalm cxliii. 2. Rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn un- If we say that we have to the Lord your God: for no sin, we deceive ourselves, he is gracious and merciful, and the truth is not in us: slow to anger, and of great but, if we confess our sins, kindness, and repenteth him he is faithful and just to

of the evil.

Joel ii. 13. forgive us our sins, and to To the Lord our God be- cleanse us from all unright­long mercies and forgive- eousness. 1 St. John i. 8, 9.

nesses, though we have re- DEARLY beloved breth­belled against him: neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws which he set be­fore us. Dan, ix. 9, 10. O Lord, correct me, but with judgement; not in thin

ren, the Scripture mov­eth us in sundry places to acknowledge and confess our manifold sins and wicked­ness; and that we should not dissemble nor cloke them before the face of Almighty