The sinners glasse containing Augustines Ladder to paradise : with diuers meditations and prayers, both for morning and euening / collected out of Saint Augustine and other ancient fathers.
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The sinners glasse containing Augustines Ladder to paradise : with diuers meditations and prayers, both for morning and euening / collected out of Saint Augustine and other ancient fathers.
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Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
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London :: Printed by Iohn VVindet for John Budge,
1609.
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Prayers.
Soul.
Religious life.
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"The sinners glasse containing Augustines Ladder to paradise : with diuers meditations and prayers, both for morning and euening / collected out of Saint Augustine and other ancient fathers." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A23100.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 30, 2025.
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A confession of our Sinnes.
O Lord my God euerlasting & almighty Fa∣ther: I ac¦knowledge and confesse before thy holy and high Maiestie, that I was bred and born in sinne and cor∣ruption: and that since my birth I haue not ceased, nor doe cease dayly to transgresse thy comman∣dements. In respect wher∣of. I cannot escape ruine and destruction according to thy rightfull iustice
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Notwithstanding, foras∣much as I am sory that I haue offended thée, and doe condemne both my ••elfe and my sinne: and foras∣much as it hath pleased thée to loue vs, euen when wee were thine enemies and for assurance thereof, to giue vs thy onely and wel be loued Sonne, our Lord Jesus Christ, to be a Mediator, and aduocate betwéene thée and vs, pro∣mising that wee shall ob∣taine whatsoeuer we aske of thée in his name.
Vouchsafe O most lo∣uing God and mercifull Father, to pardon and for∣giue
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me in his name, and for his sake: and not only to clense my heart from all vanity and vncleannes, but also to gouerne and guide me by thy holy spirit in all my waies, that I may liue according to thy holy and heauenly com∣mandements all the daies of my life, to the glory of thy holy name, through the same thy welbeloued Sonne, So be it.
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