...left * See ver. 38. undone those things which we ought to have done, and have done those things which we ought not to have done ; and there is no health in us." He can know little of " the plague of his own heart," who does not find those acknowledgments exactly...

...heart : we have left undone those things which we ought to have done, and have done those things which we ought not to have done, and there is no health in MS.' And this is repeated by the whole congregation on their knees. Such is the theory, such is the...

...offer up these our imperfect prayers. WEDNESDAY MORNING. Cottenll. ALMIGHTY and most merciful Father, we have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost...ought not to have done; and there is no health in us. But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us, miserable offenders. Spare thou them, O God, which confess their...

...offer up these our imperfect prayers. WEDNESDAY MORNING. Cotterill. ALMIGHTY and most merciful Father, we have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost...ought not to have done; and there is no health in us. But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us, miserable offenders. Spare thou them, O God, which confess their...

...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...ought not to have done ; And there is no health in us. But thou, О Lord, have mercy upon us, miserable offenders. Spare thou them, О God, which confess...

...and simplicity, " we have left undone that which we ought to have done, and we have done that which we ought not to have done, and there is no health in us ?" And then, when we contemplate our privileges and blessings as Christian disciples hrought, to the...

...now insert the confession marked as I think it ought to be read. Almighty and most merciful Father' we have er'red and strayed from thy ways' like lost...ought not to have done" and there is no health in us'" But thou' O Lord' have mercy upon us-miserable-offenders'" Spare thou' those' O God' who confess their...

...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....ought not to have done : and there is no health in us. But thou, 0 Lord, have mercy upon us, miserable offenders. Spare thou those, O God, who confess their...

...etc. • 89 PRAYER XXIX. FROM THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. Morning. Almighty and most merciful Father, we have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost...we ought not to have done ; and there is no health us. But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us, miserable offenders. Spare thou those, O God; who confess...

...teaches us to own it with equal humility, to that with which we acknowledge that we have done that which we ought not to have done. " And there is no health in us." Here the last resource of self-love is snatched from us. We can confess much, if only something be...