THE ORDER FOR
MORNING PRAYER,
DAILY IROUGHOUT 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.
WHEN 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. I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. 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.
of the evil.
Rend your heart, and not Psalm cxliii. 2. 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 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 rebelled 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 thine
DEARLY beloved breth
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