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 Q: In what words should you confess your Originall Sin and guiltiness?

A. Lord, I was shapen in inquitie: and in Sin did my mother conceive me: Psal: 51. 5:

I am a transgressour from the womb: Isa: 48: 8:

By nature a child of wrath, an heir of hell, dead in trespasses and Sins: Eph: 2. 1: 3: Mat: 23: 15:

Q: What are these actual Sins that we are to confess?

A: Sins of omission and commission:

Q: In what words can you confess your Sins of omission?

A. O Lord, The good thou commandest me to do I have not done it. Rom. 7. 19.

I have slighted thy commands: and cast thy statutes behind my back. Psal. 50. 17.

I have been a hearer (O Lord) of thy word, but not a doer. Ja. 1. 23.

Q. In what words can you confess your Sins of commission?

A. I have sinned against Heaven and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy Son. Luke 15. 21.

I have sinned heinously, I have done wickedly, I have broken thy commandments; times without number. Dan. 9. 5.

The evil that thou forbiddest me to do, that have I done. Rom. 7. 19.

Q. Ought you not to confess your actual Sins more particularly?