 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 - Pągina 281818Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 2000 - 330 pągines
...been lost sheep.' How often have we confessed with our lips, "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.' * Now, then, do you believe this is all true concerning you?" "Mester, you make me tremble!" "Trembling... | |
 | T. Richard Snyder - 2001 - 159 pągines
...in one of the most common older confessions from the Reformed tradition still in frequent use today: "We have followed too much the devices and desires...have done; And there is no health in us. But Thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us, miserable offenders."3 In the same manner, the assurance of pardon often... | |
 | Stephen Pattison - 2000 - 343 pągines
...offences that contribute to a general sense of unworthiness: We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices...against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things that we ought to have done, and we have done those things that we ought not to have done; And there... | |
 | Ramie Targoff - 2001 - 162 pągines
...congregation in unison: 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.... | |
 | Martin H. Manser - 2001 - 497 pągines
...deliver us we must undeceive ourselves. St. Augustine of Hippo 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. Book of Common Prayer Confessing sin is not informing God, it is agreeing with him. Derek Cleave It... | |
 | Jay Vickers - 2002 - 463 pągines
...iniquity of my sin. Psalm 32:5 Almighty and most merciful Father, We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices...done, And there is no health in us. •\ But thou, Oh Lord, have mercy upon us, miserable offenders. Spare thou them, O God, which confess their faults.... | |
 | Cornelius Plantinga - 2002 - 150 pągines
...mission to the nations. "Almighty and most merciful Father, we have erred and stmyed 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. " A Ceneral Confession, Book of Common Pmyer What's striking, once more, is the persistence of God's... | |
 | Peter J. Gomes - 2009 - 384 pągines
...Common Prayer of 1928, the faithful repeated a general confession that included the following words: We have followed too much the devices and desires...have done; and there is no health in us: but thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us miserable offenders . . . On Communion Sundays, the Episcopalians confessed... | |
 | Robert Nye - 2003 - 387 pągines
...was in time for Evensong. A Imighty and most merciful Father: We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices...hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have lefl undone those things which we ought to have done; And we have done those things which we ought... | |
 | Randy Newman - 2011 - 272 pągines
...in fact, almost alien: 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 those, O God, who confess their faults.... | |
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