O Lord, consider my Complaint, for I am brought very low. O Lord, how long wilt thou be angrie with thy servant that prayeth? O Lord,
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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- 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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- 1683.
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give me Grace and Repentance, and thou canst not be angrie with my Prayer. O Lord, I am thine, save me, and deliver me not into the will of mine enemies, especially my ghost∣ly Enemies. O Lord, I am thy ser∣vant, thy unprofitable wastful ser∣vant, yet thy servant. O Lord, set my accounts right before thee, and pardon all my mis-spendings and mis∣reckonings. O Lord, I am thy son, thy most unkind, prodigal, run-away son, yet thy son. O Lord, though I have not retained the love and dutie of a son, yet do not thou cast off (I humbly beg it) the kindness and compassion of a Father. O Lord, in thy Grace I return to thee; and though I have eaten draugh with all the unclean Swine in the World, in my hungrie absence from thee, yet now, Lord, upon my humble return to thee, give me, I beseech thee, the Bread of Life, the Bodie and Bloud of my Saviour into my soul, that I may be satisfied in thee, and never more
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run away from thee, even for Jesus Christ his sake, that gave himself for me.
Amen.