Edward Dering: A confession of sins with faith and repentance

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... O Merciful and heavenly Father, wee thy servants do humbly prostrate our selves before thy Majesty, acknowledging here in thy sight our heinous offences committed against thy Majesty, seeing & beholding thy heavy wrath against them: we feel our selves laden (O Lord our God) with a huge company of horrible sins, whereof even the very least, being but conceived in thought, is sufficient in judgment to throw us down to the everlasting burning lake. Our own consciences, O Lord, do bear witness against us, of our manifold transgressions of thy blessed law, of our security & senseless blindness running headlong to destruction, committing sin after sin, although not notorious to the world, yet horrible before thine eye.

The thoughts of our hearts rise up in judgment against us: the vanity of our talk before thy majesty condemneth us: the wickedness of our deeds from thy sight rejecteth us: all our wicked thoughts, words and deeds, with the inward corruption of our nature, do altogether as it were a whole lump and load of sin, lie heavy upon us, and with their intolerable weight do even press us down to hell. We do daily groan under the burthen of them, inwardly lamenting our own folly so greedily running into them. ...

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