all them that are penitent; create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we worthily lamenting our sins, and acknowledging our wretchedness, may obtain of thee, the God of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness; through Jesus Christ our Lord." Amen.

"O most mighty God, and merciful Father, who hast compassion upon all men, and hatest nothing that thou hast made; who wouldst not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn from his sin, and be saved; mercifully forgive us our trespasses; receive and comfort us, who are grieved and wearied with the burden of our sins.

Thy property is always to have mercy; to thee only it appertaineth to forgive sins. Spare us therefore, good Lord, spare thy people, whom thou hast redeemed; enter not into judgment with thy servants, who are vile earth, and miserable sinners; but so turn thine anger from us, who meekly acknowledge our vileness, and truly repent us of our faults; and so make haste to help us in this world, that we may ever live with thee in the world to come; through Jesus Christ our Lord." Amen.

FOR GOOD FRIDAY.

O LORD GOD, who of thy tender mercy didst give thine only Son Jesus Christ for our redemption; look down in mercy upon us, through the atoning sacrifice of his blood. Grant that we may be deeply humbled under a sense of our sins, which caused the Saviour all his sorrows and sufferings. May we look unto him, whom our sins have pierced, and find salvation.

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O Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, that takest away

the sins of the world, have mercy Thou that takest away upon us. the sins of the world, receive our prayer. By thy agony and bloody sweat; by thy cross and passion; by thy precious death and burial; by thy glorious resurrection and ascension; and by the coming of the Holy Ghost, good Lord deliver us. O Lord, let thy mercy be showed upon us, as we do put our trust in thee." Wash us, we pray thee, in the blood of Christ, and make us holy in heart and life. While we reflect upon thy great love, in dying for us, may our hearts be suitably affected with

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love to thee. Seeing that we are not our own, but are bought with a price, may we glorify thee, in our souls and bodies which are thine. May we ever live to thee, who hast died for us, and risen again. O Lord, do thou deliver us from this present evil world, and enable us to take up our cross and to follow thee. May we never crucify thee afresh, but do thou enable each of us to say: "I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me; and the life I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who hath loved me, and given himself for me." Do thou, of thy mercy, guide us through life, and