¶ Let him that ministreth read with a loud voice these Sentences of Scripture, and after them the Exhortation following.

REnt your heart, and not your * garments, and turn unto the Lord your God, for he is gra∣cious, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.

To the Lord our God be∣long * mercies, and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him: neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws which he set before us.

Correct us, O Lord, but with iudgment; not * in thine anger, lest thou bring us to nothing.

DEarly beloved brethren, the Scripture moveth us in sundry places, to acknow∣ledge and confess our manifold sins and wicked∣ness, and that we should not dissemble nor cloak them before the face of Almighty God our hea∣venly Father, but confess them with an humble, lowly, penitent, and obedient heart, to the end that we may obtain forgiveness of the same, by Page  [unnumbered] his infinite goodness and mercy. And although we ought at all times humbly to acknowledge our sins before God, yet ought we most chiefly so to do, when we assemble and meet together, to cast our selves down at the throne of his hea∣venly Grace, and to pour out our humble Sup∣plications for the averting of his Iudgments, and for the procuring of his Blessings upon our Sovereign and his Kingdoms, to render thanks for the great benefits that we have re∣ceived at his hands, to set forth his most worthy praise, to hear his most holy word, and to ask those things which are requisite and necessary, as well for the body as the soul: Wherefore I pray and beseech you as many as are here present, to accompany me with a pure heart and humble voice, unto the throne of the heavenly grace, saying after me.