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HAS GREVIOUSLY SINNED
O
ALMIGHTY and eternal God, behold I, a
miserable, unworthy, and faithless sinner, so
often and in such manifold ways a rebel and
ungrateful to thee, come unto thee, my Creator and my
Redeemer, accusing myself and confessing before thee all
my abominations and many crimes. In the spirit of
humiliation and with truly contrite heart I confess before
thee that I have many times blasphemed thy holy Name,
and transgressed thy just commandments, and set at
naught thy will, and rendered vain all thy gifts and all
thy work within me, and polluted my whole soul and my
body, and perverted to thy dishonour thy graces and thy
benefits, and offended thee I numberless ways by my
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sins and my iniquities. And, alas, I have too long and too
stubbornly continued in these most grievous and heinous
sins, in this malice and perfidy, abusing thy tenderness,
leading my heart astray, and defiling all my soul. And I
have not only drawn away from thee my own soul, but
many other souls which thou hast purchased with thy
most Precious Blood, and which I have led from thee by
evil example and persuasion, and given over to the devil
to be slain. Behold, O Lord my God, thy wicked enemy
lies prostrate at thy feet; behold in thy power this
perverse and recreant sinner, who of his own accord
gives himself up unto thee. Do with me whatsoever
seemethgood to thee; for with resolved will I submit
myself to the rigour of thy justice, prepared to endure
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