...have we to join, with humble and penitent hearts, m the scriptural Confession of our Church Service, " Almighty and most merciful Father, we have erred and strayed from Thy ways like lost sheep." And when we do thus pour forth our " complaint before Him," and " long for His saving health," He will...

...say, when we acknowledge that " we have erred and strayed from God's ways like lost sheep ?" that " we have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts ?"—that " we have offended against God's holy laws?"—that "we have left undone those things which...

...hearts to kneel before the throne of grace, he puts the language of confession on their lips, — " We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep," " We are all, as an unclean thing,1' — " We would acknowledge our transgressions, before thee," — "Against...

...mourn as He would have us ? In the confession in which we joined an hour ago, while we repeated, " we have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost...devices and desires of our own hearts — we have oflended against thy holy laws — we have left undone those things which we ought to have done, and...

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

...our Lord. A general Confesnon to be taid of the whole Congregation with the 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 and desires of our own hearts. We have offended...

...Lord. May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, etc. • 89 PRAYER XXIX. FROM THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. Morning. Almighty and most merciful Father, we have...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...

...that our iniquities are increased over our head and our trespass is gone up into the very heavens. We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost...have followed too much the devices and desires of our owr. hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone the things we ought to have...

...•with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and thy neighbour as thyself." How have we broken God's laws ? " We have left undone those things which we...have done, and we have done those things which we ought not to have done." What do we mean by saying, there is no health in us 2 Sin is the same thing...

...sustained note, arid which the reader would use were he to continue it without such interruption. ' Almighty and most merciful Father' we have erred and strayed from thy ways' like lost sheep.' These last two words are often run into one another, and pronounced as if they were but one; instead...