 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...  The Book of common prayer - Page 281818Full view - About this book
 | Arthur Henry Dyke Troyte - 1848 - 332 pages
...of the same. A LMIGHTY and most merciful Father; we have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against...have done ; And there is no health in us. But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us, miserable offenders. Spare thou them, O God, which confess their faults.... | |
 | Peter Hall - 1848 - 178 pages
...Congregation after the Minister. ALMIGHTY and most merciful Father ; We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep ; We have followed too much the devices...have done ; And we have done those things which we ought not to have done. But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us, miserable offenders. Spare thou them,... | |
 | Robert Cassie Waterston - Hymns, English - 1848 - 702 pages
...REPEATED BY THE CONGREGATION. ALMIGHTY and most merciful Father, We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices...have done ; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done. But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us. Spare thou those, O God, who confess... | |
 | Arthur Henry Dyke Troyte - 1848 - 332 pages
...forgive-ness of the same. ALMIGHTY and most merciful Father; We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the de-vices...have offended against thy holy laws. We have left xindone those things which we ought to have done; And we have done those things which we ought not... | |
 | 1849 - 124 pages
...'Minister, all kneeling. ALMIGHTY and most merciful Father; We have erred, and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices...have mercy upon us, miserable offenders. Spare thou them, О God, which confess their faults. Restore thou them that are penitent; According to thy promises... | |
 | Church of England - 1849 - 1236 pages
...Uiniiter, all kneeling. ALMIGHTY and most merciful J\. Father ; We have erred, and strayed from Thy ways 0 Lord, have mercy upon us, miserable offenders. Spare Thou them, 0 God, which confess their faults.... | |
 | Church prayers - 1849 - 188 pages
...(4) II.— CONFESSIONS. ALMIGHTY and most merciful Father ; We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices...have done ; And there is no health in us. But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us, miserable offenders. Spare thou them, O God, which confess their faults.... | |
 | Ian Robinson - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 260 pages
...positive effort to ignore: Almighty and most merciful Father, We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep, We have followed too much the devices...ought not to have done, And there is no health in us: so that the turn to hope is much more powerful: 'But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us miserable offenders... | |
 | George Wolfgang Forell - Religion - 1975 - 324 pages
...Church, it reads as follows: Almighty and most merciful Father: we have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices...ought not to have done. And there is no health in us. And here follows a request for forgiveness. The words in The Service of the Lutheran Church arc very... | |
 | Elisabeth Elliot - Religion - 1999 - 196 pages
...of Morning Prayer we repeat on our knees this confession: "We have erred and strayed from Thy ways like lost sheep, we have followed too much the devices...ought not to have done, and there is no health in us." As I say those words I sometimes think of the people who are saying them with me and I think, "I belong... | |
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