A guide to godliness or a Treatise of a Christian life showing the dutiesA guide to godlynesse or a Treatise of a Christian life shewing the duties

We have not adorned our selves with humility and meekness, in the sight and sense of our own vileness and unworthiness; but are full of spiritual pride, arrogating unto our selves those gifts we have not, and overweening those we have, or ascribing the praise of them unto our selves, which is only due to thee. We are negligent in the duties of thy service, and do not perform them in Spirit and truth, but either neglect them upon every slight occasion, or do them without due preparation, coldly and formally, without any fervency of zeal, respecting thy glory, or our spiritual good. We have often taken thy holy Name in vain, and abused thine holy ordinances, and profaned thy Sabbaths, not doing thy will only on thy holy Day, but speaking our own words, walking in our own ways, and seeking our own carnal delights. We have also neglected the duties of righteousness, charity and mercy towards our neighbours, and of temperance and sobriety towards our selves. By all which, and many other our sins, we have made our selves subject to thy wrath and the curse of the Law, and have justly deserved to be deprived of all testimonies of thy love, and to be overwhelmed with all thy judgements and punishments, both in this life, and the life to come. O Lord our God, affect our hearts with son-like sorrow, because we have so much and often displeased thee our gracious Father; and let us be grieved in our souls, that we are so little grieved for our sins, whereby we have pierced our Saviour, and grieved thy good Spirit dwelling in us. And further, we beseech thee, in the multitude of thy mercies, to remit and forgive all our sins, and wash us clean from the guilt and punishment of them all, that they may neither deprive us of thy love and manifold blessings temporal and eternal, nor expose us to thy wrath and fearful punishments. And not only remit our sins, and ⟨p. 908⟩heal our souls, but speak comfortably to our consciences, by the secret voice of thy Spirit, as once thy Son did to the sick of the palsy, Sons, be of good comfort, your sins are forgiven you.

We haue not adorned our selues with humility and meeknesse, in the sight and sense of our owne vilenesse and vnworthinesse; but are full of spirituall pride, arrogating vnto our selues those gifts we haue not, and ouerweening those we haue, or ascribing the praise of them vnto our selues, which is onely due to thee. We are negligent in the duties of thy seruice, and doe not performe them in Spirit and truth, but either neglect them vpon euery slight occasion, or doe them without due preparation, coldly and formally, without any feruency of zeale, respecting thy glory, or our spirituall good. We haue often taken thy holy Name in vaine, and abused thine holy ordinances, and prophaned thy Sabbaths, not doing thy will onely on thy holy Day, but speaking our owne words, walking in our owne waies, and seeking our owne carnall delights. We haue also neglected the duties of righteousnesse, charity and mercy towards our neighbours, and of temperance and sobriety towards our selues. By all which, and many other our sinnes, wee haue made our selues subiect to thy wrath and the curse of the Law, and haue iustly deserued to be depriued of all testimonies of thy loue, and to bee ouerwhelmed with all thy iudgements and punishments, both in this life, and the life to come. O Lord our God, affect our hearts with sonne-like sorrow, because we haue so much and often displeased thee our gracious Father; and let vs be grieued in our soules, that wee are so little grieued for our sinnes, whereby we haue pierced our Sauiour, and grieued thy good Spirit dwelling in vs. And further, wee beseech thee, in the multitude of thy mercies, to remit and forgiue all our sinnes, and wash vs cleane from the guilt and punishment of them all, that they may neither depriue vs of thy loue and manifold blessings temporall and eternall, nor expose vs to thy wrath and fearfull punishments. And not onely remit our sins, and