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About an hour before you go forth, review the account of your sins, noted in your paper; let your heart go along with the reading of them, sorrowing for them, and resolving against them.

After this, humbly kneel, and repeat the
51st Psalm.

1 HAVE mercy upon me, O God, after Thy great goodness: according to the multitude of Thy mercies do away mine offences.

2 Wash me throughly from my wickedness and cleanse me from my sin.

3 For I acknowledge my faults: and my sin is ever before me.

4 Against Thee only have I sinned, and done this evil in Thy sight that Thou mightest be justified in Thy saying, and clear when Thou art judged.

5 Behold, I was shapen in wickedness : and in sin hath my mother conceived me. 6 But lo, Thou requirest truth in the inward parts and shalt make me to under

stand wisdom secretly.

7 Thou shalt purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: Thou shalt wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

8 Thou shalt make me hear of joy and gladness that the bones which Thou hast broken may rejoice.

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3 Turn Thy face from my sins: and put out all my misdeeds.

10 Make me a clean heart, O God and renew a right spirit within me.

11 Cast me not away from Thy presence: and take not Thy Holy Spirit from me.

12 O give me the comfort of Thy help again and stablish me with Thy free Spirit.

13 Then shall I teach Thy ways unto the wicked and sinners shall be converted unto Thee.

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14 Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God, Thou that art the God of my health : and my tongue shall sing of Thy righteous

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15 Thou shalt open my lips, O Lord: and my mouth shall shew Thy praise.

16 For Thou desirest no sacrifice, else would I give it Thee: but Thou delightest not in burnt-offerings.

17 The sacrifice of God is a troubled Spirit a broken and contrite heart, O God, shalt Thou not despise.

18 O be favourable and gracious unto Sion build Thou the walls of Jerusalem.

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19 Then shalt Thou be pleased with the sacrifice of righteousness, with the burntofferings and oblations: then shall they offer young bullocks upon Thine altar.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son : and to the Holy Ghost;

As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be: world without end. Amen.

Then these following Collects.

1. O BLESSED Jesu, who didst take upon Thee our nature, and didst suffer death upon the Cross for our redemption; and hast commanded us to continue the memory of this Thy precious death till Thy coming again; O let not the inestimable benefits of it be frustrated by my manifold and grievous sins, but inspire my soul with those graces which may qualify me to receive them tendered unto me in this Blessed Sacrament. O Lord, Thou seest that I have no power of myself to help myself. O let the pitifulness of Thy great mercy loose me from the chains of those sins wherewith I am tied and bound; that being thus set

at liberty, I may here with cheerfulness run the way of Thy Commandments, and hereafter enter into Thy joy, O blessed Saviour and Redeemer. Amen.

2. THOU, O God and Saviour, knowest how vile I am, and with what eagerness I have pursued the paths that lead unto everlasting death! How often hath this Feast been prepared, I lovingly bid and called thereto; but have with frivolous excuses absented myself! Or, if I have come, I have brought such troops of Thy professed enemies, unrepented sins, along with me, as if I came not to adore, but to defy Thee; not to commemorate, but to renew Thy Passion! I am not worthy, O Lord, I am not worthy to come into Thy presence, much less to eat the flesh of the sacrificed Lamb; for my sins, O blessed Jesu, went along in confederation with the High Priests, in treachery with Judas, in injustice with Pilate, in malice and cruelty with the people: O what punishment then shall I be thought worthy of, who have thus trampled under foot the Son of God, and counted the blood of the covenant an unholy thing! Where shall I vile wretch appear, who have put my Lord

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to death; who have crucified to myself the Son of God afresh, and put Thee to an open shame! Where should I appear, but before my Saviour, who hath loved, and died for me, though I have hated and murdered Him? Thy blood, O Jesu, is my only refuge! O let the cry of it speak on my behalf; and may it speak better things than the blood of Abel! Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me, for my soul trusteth in Thee, and in the clefts of Thy wounds shall be my refuge until Thy Father's indignation be overpast! O blessed Advocate and Mediator, intercede for me with Thy Father and ours, Thy God and ours; and grant that by the grace which Thou hast found, by the prerogative which Thou hast deserved, by the mercy which Thou hast purchased for me, as Thou hast been partaker of my sufferings and infirmities, so I by Thy Death and Resurrection, and by Thy infinite gracious intercession, may be made partaker of Thy holiness and Thy glory, even for Thy own merits' sake. Amen.

3. O LORD, who hast promised that if I open my mouth wide Thou wilt fill it, I

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