MORNING PRAYER.

ALT LMIGHTY God, the

God our heavenly Father;| And there is no health in but confess them with an us. But thou, O Lord, have humble, lowly, penitent, and mercy upon us, miserable obedient heart; to the end offenders. Spare thou them, that we may obtain forgive- O God, which confess their ness of the same, by his in- faults. Restore thou them finite goodness and mercy. that are penitent; Accord­And although we ought at ing to thy promises declared all times humbly to acknow- unto mankind in Christ Jesu ledge our sins before God; our Lord. And grant, O most yet ought we most chiefly merciful Father, for his so to do, when we assemble sake; That we may hereafter and meet together to render live a godly, righteous, and thanks for the great benefits sober life, To the glory of that we have received at his thy holy Name. Amen. hands, to set forth his most worthy praise, to hear his most holy Word, and to ask those things which are re­quisite and necessary, as well for the body as the soul. Wherefore I pray and Father of our Lord Je­beseech you, as many as sus Christ, who desireth not are here present, to accom- the death of a sinner, but pany me with a pure heart, rather that he may turn and from his wickedness, and live; and hath given power, and commandment, to his Ministers, to declare and pronounce to his people, being penitent, the Absolu­tion and Remission of their sins: He pardoneth and ab­merciful Father; We solveth all them that truly have erred, and strayed from repent, and unfeignedly be­thy ways like lost sheep. We lieve his holy Gospel. Where­have followed too much the fore let us beseech him to devices and desires of our grant us true repentance, own hearts. We have of- and his holy Spirit, that those fended against thy holy laws. things may please him, which We have left undone those we do at this present; and things which we ought to that the rest of our life here­have done; And we have after may be pure, and holy; done those things which we so that at the last we may ought not to have done; come to his eternal joy;

humble voice, unto the throne of the heavenly grace, saying after me;

TA general Confession to be said of the whole Congregation after the Minister, all kneeling.

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LMIGHTY and most

The Absolution, or Remission of sins, to be pronounced by the Priest alone, standing; the peo­ple still kneeling.