A Prayer for forgiveness of Sins.
O My God, when I call sadly to mind what I have done, and what I have left undone, how careless I have been to please thee,
Holy rules and helps to devotion both in prayer and practice In two parts. The fourth edition. Written by the right reverend father in God, Bryan Duppa, late Lord Bishop of Winton, in the time of his sequestration.
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- Holy rules and helps to devotion both in prayer and practice In two parts. The fourth edition. Written by the right reverend father in God, Bryan Duppa, late Lord Bishop of Winton, in the time of his sequestration.
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- Duppa, Brian, 1588-1662.
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- London :: printed for W. Hensman, at the King's-Head in Westminster-Hall,
- 1683.
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- Prayer -- Early works to 1800.
- Devotional literature -- Early works to 1800.
- Theology, Practical -- Early works to 1800.
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"Holy rules and helps to devotion both in prayer and practice In two parts. The fourth edition. Written by the right reverend father in God, Bryan Duppa, late Lord Bishop of Winton, in the time of his sequestration." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A36933.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.
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how diligent to offend thee; how passionately I have been transported toward the plea∣sures of this life, how cold and heavy in pursuing my everlasting happiness: When I seriously consider the vani∣ty of my affections, the fol∣ly of my thoughts, the idle∣ness of my words, and above all, the sinfulness of my acti∣ons, I stand amazed at my self, that such a Contempla∣tion as this makes not my flesh to tremble, and my heart break at the very thought of it.
For, O my Lord, if thou shouldest be extreme to mark what I have done amiss, if thou shouldest enter into Judgment with me, what
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would become of me, for of so many millions of sins that I have committed, alas, I cannot answer thee one of a thousand.
But, O my Saviour, thou who hast revealed it to me as a faithful saying, that thou camest into the World for no other end but to save Sinners, thou who hast so solemnly sworn, thy delight is not in my death, but rather that I should live: what shall hin∣der thee to do that which thou delightest in? or what can hinder thee to save the Soul thou camest into the World for?
O pardon and forgive then all my sins past, that nothing may hinder thee: Lay them
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no longer to my charge, cast them behind thee, bury them, drown them, scatter them as a mist, and as a Morning∣cloud, let them vanish away. And when thou hast done this, O my merciful GOD, leave not here, but go on: Create in me a clean heart, and renew a right spirit with∣in me; let me feel once the powerful effects, the saving operations of thy Grace, in fervency of devotion toward thee, in bitterness of repen∣tance for offending thee, in holy resolutions never wil∣fully to sin against thee more, and in perseverance in those resolutions, till I shall pass out of this valley of tears, in∣to those everlasting Joys,
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where no evil can approach me.
Amen.