The daily office of a Christian being the devotions of the most Reverend Father in God Dr. William Laud, late archbishop of Canterbury : wherein several catechetical paraphrases ...

WEDNESDAY.

O Lord, I have sin∣ned * 1.1 and dealt wickedly; nay, offended in all thine Ordi∣nances. Let thy wrath turn from me, for I am weak; and hear my prayers, and deliver me for thine own sake, and the merits of my Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.

Gracious Father, without thee I can do nothing but sin; nor can I confess it to have pardon but by thee. I was conceived and born in sin: And though thou didst wash me from that in the laver of Baptism, yet I have since defiled my self again, and by many grievous actual sins, have made my self a sinner above all other men, considering the great measure of grace that thou hast given me. Lord, in∣crease thy grace, and by it weaken first, and then cut off my resistance,

that I may see, and confess, and hate, and forsake all my sins, and find mer∣cie and salvation in the merits of my blessed Saviour Jesus Christ. A∣men.

O Lord, early this * 1.2 morning do I crie unto thee; for in thy Word is my trust. Hear me, O Lord, for Je∣sus Christ his sake. Amen.

O Lord, let me hear thy * 1.3 loving kindness betimes in the morning, for in thee is my trust. O shew me the way that I should walk in this day, and all the days of my life; for I lift up my soul unto thee in the mercies of Jesus Christ.

Amen.

Notes

• * 1.1

  In the morn. Baruch 2.12, 14. For Peni∣tence.
• * 1.2

  Psal. 119.147. To be heard.
• * 1.3

  Psal. 143. 8.