The rule and exercises of holy living. In which are described the means and instruments of obtaining every vertue, and the remedies against every vice, and considerations serving to the resisting all temptations. Together with prayers containing the whole duty of a Christian, and the parts of devotion fitted to all occasions, and furnish'd for all necessities.

IV. An act of repentance or contrition.

FOr as for me, I am not worthy to be called thy servant, much lesse am I worthy to be thy son, for I am the vilest of sinners and the worst of men, a lover of the things of the world, and a despiser of the things of God, [proud and envious, lustful and intemperate] greedy of sin, and impatient of reproof, desirous to seem holy, and negligent of being so, transport∣ed with interest, fool'd with presumption and false principles, disturb'd with anger, with a peevish and unmortified spirit, and disordered by a whole body of sin and death. Lord pardon all my sins for my sweetest Saviours sake; thou who didst dye for me, Holy Jesus, save me and deliver me, reserve not my sins to be punished in the day of wrath and eternal vengeance; but wash away my sins, and blot them out of thy remembrance, and purifie my soul with the wa∣ters of repentance and the bloud of the crosse, that for what is past thy wrath may not come out against me, and for the time to come I may never provoke thee to anger or to jealousie. O just and dear God be pitiful and gracious to thy servant. Amen.