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Prayers for Morning 407
my lips, but the obedience of my life; that
so these blessings here may be an earnest of
those richer blessings thou hast prepared for
those that love thee, and that for his sake,
whom thou hast made the Author of Eternal
Salvation to all that obey him, even Jesus Christ.

A Confession

O Righteous Lord, who hatest iniquity,
I thy sinful creature. cast my self at thy
feet, acknowledging that I most justly deserve
to be utterly abhorred and forsaken by thee;
for I have drunk iniquity like water, gone on
in a continued course of sin and rebellion
against thee, daily committing those things
thou forbiddest, and leaving undone those
things thou commandest; mine heart, which
should be an habitation for thy spirit, is become
a Cage of unclean Birds, of foul and disordered
affections; and out of this abundance
of the heart my mouth speaketh, my hands
act, so that in thought, word and deed, I
continually transgress against thee. (Here
mention the greatest of thy sins.) Nay, O Lord,
I have despised that goodness of thine which
should lead me to Repentance, Hardning my
heart against all those means thou hast used
for my amendment. And now, Lord, what
can I expect from thee but judgment and fiery
indignation, that is indeed the due reward of
my
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James Shelley was born 30th October
1836 Grain Trean Hills Argly