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O Father of heuen: O sonne of God Redéemer of the worlde: O holie ghost the sweet comforter, O the diuine essence thrée per∣sons and one God, haue mer∣cie vpon me, most vile caitife and miserable sinner. I haue offended both against heauen & earth, more than my toong can expresse. Whither then
may I go, or whither should I flie? To heauen I may be ashamed to lift vp mine eies and in earth I finde no place of refuge or succour. To thée therfore O Lord, do I come, to thée doo I humble my selfe saieng: O Lord my God my sinnes be great, but yet haue mercy vpon me for thy great mercie. The great mysterie that God became man, was not wrought for little, or few offences. Thou diddest not giue thy sonne (O heauenlie
Father) vnto death for small sinnes onelie, but for all the greatest sinnes of the world, so that the sinner returne to thee with his whole heart, as by grace first receyued from thée I doo héer at this present Wherefore haue mercie vp∣on me O God, whose proper∣tie is alwaies to haue mercy haue mercie vppon mee, O Lorde, for thy great mercie. I craue nothing, O Lord, for my owne merits, but for thy names sake, that it may be
hallowed thereby: and for thy déere son Iesu Christes sake. And therfore I continue forth my crie vnto thee from the bottom of my heart saieng; Our father which art in heauen hallowed be thy name, &c.