+ DEPRECATIONS. I. LORD, Thou knowest, and canst, O wretched man that I am; I neither know, nor can, nor, as I ought, But, O Lord, I beseech Thee, as Thou knowest to be most pleasing to Thee, and most good for me. Thine is benignity, gentleness, clemency; I mercies, multitude of mercies, in overlooking, in disregarding; not correspondently, not to the end, whom Thou didst create, redeem, regenerate, Remember not, Lord, my sins, nor the sins of my forefathers; neither take Thou vengeance of our sins, theirs, nor mine. Spare us, Lord, them and me, and, among Thy people, Thy servant, who is redeemed with Thy precious blood; and be not angry with us for ever. Be propitious, be propitious; spare us, Lord, and be not angry with us for ever. Be propitious, be propitious; have mercy on us, Lord, and be not wroth with us very sore. deal not with me after mine iniquities, and according to the multitude of Thy mercies, reward me. After that so great pity, and that multitude of mercies, in all time of need; lift me up, rescue me, save me, O Lord. and destroy me not. On the bed of sickness; in the day of judgment, from seeing the Judge's face overcast, from being bound in chains of darkness, from being cast into the outer darkness, from being tormented in the pit of fire and brimstone, where the smoke of the torments Be merciful, be merciful, spare us, pity us, and destroy us not for ever, Let it not be, O Lord; and that it be not, take away from me, O Lord, desperateness after sinning, contempt of Thy threats, a reprobate mind, the sin against the Holy Ghost, the sin unto death, the four crying sins ;* the six which forerun; † the sin against the Holy Ghost. Deliver me from all the grievous and terrible evils from pestilence, famine, and war; the plague of immoderate rain, and drought, blast and blight; thunder, lightning, and tempest; epidemic sickness, acute and malignant ; unexpected death: From ills and troubles in the Church, from innovation in things sacred, from unhealthy enquiries and interminable disputes, from heresies, schisms, scandals, public and private, * Wilful murder, the sin of Sodom, oppressing the poor, defrauding workmen of their wages. + Despair of salvation, presumption of God's mercy, impugning known truth, envy at another's grace, obstinacy in sin, and impenitence. |