most heartily beseech thee to have compassion upon us, and forgive us these sins; have mercy upon us, have mercy upon us, most merciful Father: for thy Son Jesus Christ's sake forgive us all that is past, and grant that hereafter we may serve thee in newness of life, to the honour and glory of thy name, and the eternal salvation of our souls, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

O Lord God, our open wickedness is great, and the secret sins we have committed are more in number than the hairs of our heads; and our hearts would fail us, but that we well know that thy mercies are greater than our sins; have mercy therefore upon us, according to thy great goodness, and in the multitude of thy mercies do away our offences. O Lord God Almighty, forgive and receive us into the arms of thy fatherly compassion; make us ashamed of our past folly and madness, our greediness in sucking in pollution, our treacherous betraying our souls to temptation, our obstinate refusals of thy mercy, and unthankful abuses of thy goodness. Make us every day more and more to feel how bitter a thing it is to

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depart from thee, and to transgress thy most holy and perfect commandments. O gracious Lord, look on us as thou didst on St. Peter, and so pierce these hard hearts that we may weep bitterly for our sins, and repent truly for all our iniquities. Amen.

LORD, we beseech thee mercifully to hear us;

and grant that we, to whom thou hast given an hearty desire to pray, may, by thy mighty aid, be defended and comforted in all dangers and adversities, through Jesus Christ our Lord; to whom, with thyself and the Holy Spirit, be all honour and glory, now and for ever more. Amen.

Then (still kneeling) may be rehearsed the Ten Commandments; those present, after each Commandment, asking God's mercy for their transgressions for the time past, and grace to keep the law for the time to come, as followeth.

Leader. God spake these words, and said, I am the Lord thy God: thou shalt have none other gods but me.

Lord have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this law.

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Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God; and visit the sins of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and show mercy unto thousands in them that love me, and keep my commandments.

Lord have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this law.

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

Lord have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this law.

Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all that thou hast to do; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. In it thou shalt do no manner of work; thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man servant, and thy maid servant, thy cattle, and the stranger that is within thy gates. For in six days

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the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day; wherefore the Lord blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it.

Lord have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this law.

Honour thy father and thy mother; that thy days may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Lord have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this law.

Thou shalt do no murder.

Lord have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this law.

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

Lord have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this law.

Thou shalt not steal.

Lord have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this law.

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

Lord have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this law.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his servant, nor his maid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is his.

Lord have mercy upon us, and write all these thy laws in our hearts, we beseech thee.

Then the leader may say,

Hear also what our Lord Jesus Christ saith.

IOU shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy

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heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

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Let us pray.

ALMIGHTY Lord, and everlasting God, vouch

safe, we beseech thee, to direct, sanctify, and govern, both our hearts and bodies in the ways of thy laws, and in the works of thy commandments, that, through thy most mighty protection, both here and