1LORD omnipotent, God of our fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Iacob, and of their iust seede:

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2which didst make heauen and earth with al their furniture:

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3which hast bound the sea with the word of thy precept: which hast shut vp the depth, and hast signed it with thy terrible & laudable name:

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4whom al thinges do feare, and at whose face al thinges do tremble:

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5because the magnificence of thy glorie is importable, and the wrath of thy threatening vpon sinners is vnsusteinable.

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6But the mercie of thy promise is great and vnsearcheable:

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7because thou art the Lord the Highest, benigne, long suffering, and very merciful, and sory for the malices of men.

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8Thou Lord according to the multitude of thy goodnes hast promised penance and remission to them that haue sinned against thee: and in the multitude of thy mercies thou hast decreed penance to sinners vnto saluation.

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9Thou therefore Lord God of the iust, hast not set penance to the iust, Abraham, Isaac, and Iacob, to them that haue not sinned against thee:

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10but thou hast sette penance to me a sinner: because I haue sinned aboue the number of the sand of the sea.

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11Myne iniquities are multiplied Lord, myne iniquities are multiplied: & I am not worthie to behold and see the height of heauen for the multitude of myne iniquities.

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12I am crooked with a great bend of yron, that I can not lift vp my head, & I haue no respiration: because I haue stirred vp thy wrath, and haue done euil before thee: I haue not done thy wil, and I haue not kept thy commandementes: I haue set abominations, and haue multiplied offences.

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13And now I bowe the knee of my hart, beseching goodnes of thee.

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14I haue sinned Lord, I haue sinned: and I doe acknowledge myne iniquities.

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15I aske beseching thee: Forgeue me Lord, forgeue me: and destroy me not together with myne iniquities, nor reserue euils for me being angrie for euer, nor condemne me into the lowest partes of the earth. Because thou art the God, the God of the penitent: and in me thou shalt shew al thy goodnes: because thou shalt saue me vnworthie according to thy great mercie: and I wil prayse thee alwayes al the dayes of my lyfe: because al the powre of the heauens prayseth thee, and to thee is glorie for euer and euer. Amen.

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