...with shame and grief, that we have violated thine holy laws, and abused they tender mercies : that we have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts, and in numberless instances have offended against a most righteous governor, a most tender and compassionate...

...confess, with shame and grief, that we have violated thine holy laws, and abused they tender mercies: that we have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts, and in numberless instances have offended against a most righteous governor, a most tender and compassionate...

...hear in this place. We have confessed that " we have erred and strayed like lost sheep" — that " we have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts" — and that " there is no health in us." We also know, that nothing is more plainly declared in the...

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

...the Holy GhostS' This is under the Gospel. In our General Confession we constantly acknowledge that we have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts, that there is no health in us. And in the Collect for the second Sunday in Lent : Almighty God, who...

...still fresh in my recollection) she emphatically repeated after me those words of our confession, " we have erred and strayed from thy ways, like lost sheep; we have left undone those things which we ought to have done; we have done those things which we ought not...

...influence of the Holy Spirit, we are then enabled feelingly to pray from the bottom of our hearts : " We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost...to have done ; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done : And there is no health in us." And in whomsoever this grace exists, it...

...desires are known, all whose commandments are just, necessary, and good ! we confess unto thee, that we have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost...to have done ; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done. But enter not, we beseech thee into judgment with us ; for in thy sight...

...•we may learn of him, and take his yoke upon us, and find rest and salvation to our souls. O Lord, we have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep; we have sinned against thee in thought, word, and deed ; we have destroyed ourselves; but in Christ Jesus is...

...merciful but righteous Judge, that " we have erred and strayed from his ways like lost sheep; and that we have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts." And here, this admirable form not only shows us, how comprehensive and unreserved our confession should...