¶ 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