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 ...

Confessions.

* O Lord, in many things I have offended and done wickedly, and [have] grieved thy holy Spirit. I have provoked [to wrath] the bowels of thy mercie, by thought, word, and deed, by night and by day, in publick and in private, deliberately and by surprize. O if thou shouldest set my sins in the sight of thy coun∣tenance; O if thou shouldest call me to account for my sins, those sins which are unpardonable in themselves, [those] which I have committed a∣gainst [my own] knowledge, [O] what shall I do? whither shall I flie? But, O Lord, rebuke me not in thy furie, nor chasten me in thine anger. Have mercie upon me, not onely because I

am weak, but [also] because I am the work of thy hands, I beseech thee, enter not into Judgment with thy servant; for if thou, Lord, shalt [be extreme to] mark what is done a∣miss, O Lord, who may abide it? whosoever may, yet [most] certainly I shall not: For I am a sea of sin, and am not worthie [so much as] to look up to Heaven, by reason of the mul∣titude of my sins which cannot be numbered, evil speakings, injuries, &c. and [besides] a thousand other abomi∣nable passions [there are] from which I have not refrain'd my self. For with what wickedness am I not defil'd? to what sins am I not inslav'd? I am [altogether] become an unprofitable servant to thee my God, and to all mankind. Now that I am fallen into such sins as these, who shall raise me up again? O Lord, thou art my God, in thee is my trust; be thou my Sa∣viour according to the bowels of thy compassion, and be merciful to me ac∣cording to the greatness of thy mer∣cie,

and reward me not according to my works, but turn thy self to me, and [turn] me to thee. Forgive me all the sins that I have committed a∣gainst thee, [and] save me for thy mercies sake: and where sin has a∣bounded, [there] let thy Grace abound much more; so shall I praise and glo∣rifie thee all the days of my life: For thou art the God of those that repent, and the Saviour of sinners. Glorie be to thee, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen.