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Rh upon thee: for our lives, and all the comforts of them, we are indebted to thy bounty. Thy hast fashioned us in the womb, brought us to this world, and ever since we saw the light led us with variety of good. We adore thy mercy. Justly mightest thou have brought us all the curses written in the book of thy against our transgressions: and had thy ways as our ways, and thy thoughts like our  towards our enemies, we had long since  past the power of offering to thee our thanks  praise, beyond the benefit of prayer, or the  of pardon.

We confess, O Lord, we have been transgressors thy law, in thought, word, and deed. We are with the workings and defilements of, and hypocrisy, uncharitableness and , of self-love, and worldliness of heart, not all the methods thou hast taken to  these diseases of our souls. We have sinned the clear revelation of thy will, and the obligations binding us to comply with it. We have sinned against thy most inviting promises, thy most dreadful threatenings; against the  warnings of thy word, the renewed  and powerful convictions of thy Spirit, and  precious blood of Christ. We have sinned the light of our understanding, against and purposes of obedience, and against  strongest remonstrances of our own.

O God, we cannot recount the number of our, nor fully set in order all their aggravations. We should not therefore presume to ask for thy mercy, if we did not trust that thy  hast created within us a holy mourning for