 | John McVickar - 1832 - 138 pages
...heart : we have left undone those things which we ought to have done, and have done those things which we ought not to have done, and there is no health in MS.' And this is repeated by the whole congregation on their knees. Such is the theory, such is the... | |
 | Sallucia Abbott - 1832 - 94 pages
...hearts to kneel before the throne of grace, he puts the language of confession on their lips, — " We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep," " We are all, as an unclean thing,1' — " We would acknowledge our transgressions, before thee," — "Against... | |
 | William Bailey (A.B.) - 534 pages
...mourn as He would have us ? In the confession in which we joined an hour ago, while we repeated, " we have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost...devices and desires of our own hearts — we have oflended against thy holy laws — we have left undone those things which we ought to have done, and... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1833 - 636 pages
...congregation, he will constantly begin the sacred office by an act of hypocrisy, in saying, " Ahnighty Father, we have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have oflended against thy holy laws. There is no health in us. But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us, miserable... | |
 | 1833 - 896 pages
...and simplicity, " we have left undone that which we ought to have done, and we have done that which we ought not to have done, and there is no health in us ?" And then, when we contemplate our privileges and blessings as Christian disciples hrought, to the... | |
 | 1833 - 82 pages
...our Lord. A general Confesnon to be taid of the whole Congregation with the Minister, all kneeling: ALMIGHTY and most merciful Father; •**• We have erred, and strayed from thy way like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended... | |
 | William Meade - 1834 - 156 pages
...the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, etc. • 89 PRAYER XXIX. FROM THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. Morning. Almighty and most merciful Father, we have erred and...we ought not to have done ; and there is no health us. But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us, miserable offenders. Spare thou those, O God; who confess... | |
 | John Kendall Nelson - 2001 - 502 pages
...summons to confession ("Almighty and most mercifull Father, We have erred and strayed from thy wayes like lost sheep, We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts"). Absolution came next if the parson were present. ("Almighty God . . . pardonest and absolveth all them... | |
 | Karen B. Westerfield Tucker - 2001 - 368 pages
...second paragraph: the General Confession from Wesley's (and the Episcopal) morning and evening prayer ("Almighty and most merciful Father, we have erred and strayed from thy ways. . . ."). The fourth paragraph adds two further ingredients in this pastiche, namely, pietistic turns... | |
 | John Shelby Spong - 2009 - 485 pages
...conversation. Perhaps the service helped. Maybe when we said the confession, "We have done those things which we ought not to have done," and "There is no health in us," the guilt she felt began to be dispelled. I don't know, but when the service was over, we had lunch... | |
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Almighty and most merciful Father : We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to... 
