* Have regard unto * 1.1 thy servant, O my God, and be merciful to me according to the bowels of thy mercie. Behold, I am become a reproach to thy Name, by serving my own ambition and the sins of other men. And though the perswasion of others moved me to do this [thing], yet my own Conscience cried aloud against it. I beseech thee, O Lord, by the mercies of Jesus, en∣ter not into judgment with thy ser∣vant, but hearken to his bloud that pleads for me; and let not this Mar∣riage divorce my soul from thy em∣braces. O how much better had it been [for me] (if I had been but duely mindful of this day) rather to have suffered Martyrdom with thy first Martyr, for denying the vehement importunitie of those my friends who
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 ...
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- Laud, William, 1573-1645.
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were either too unfaithful [to me] or else too ungodly. I flattered my self with hope that this sin should have been hid in darkness, but loe, the night presently vanished, and the day it self was not more apparent than I that committed it. Thus it pleased thee, O Lord, for the abundance of thy mercie, to cover my face with confu∣sion, that I might learn to seek thy Name. O how grievous to me, still even at this day, is the remembrance of this my sin, even after [those] so many and so often-repeated prayers which I have poured out before thee from my sorrowful and troubled spi∣rit! O Lord, have mercie, hear the prayers of thy most dejected and lowly servant. Spare me, O Lord, and forgive [me] all those sins which brought in this, and which followed upon it: For I confess, O Lord, that yet [once] again, and upon the very same day of the returning year, for want of due caution still, and suffici∣ent humiliation, I fell into another
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grievous sin; I was stoned again, not for my sin, but by it. Now, O Lord, raise me up again entirely, that I may no longer lie dead in my sins; but grant that I may live, and living may rejoyce in thee, through the merits and mercies of Jesus Christ our Savi∣our.
Amen.
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* 1.1
Decemb. 26. 1605. being Thursday, and the Feast of St. Ste∣phen. Com. of Devon, and E. M. in the year 1609.