thy goodnes I came to thee
or hopeing: as the well
of life to wash away my sinns. that thou wouldest cure me which art the
spirituall phisitian. that thou wouldest quicken me which art the Lord
of life.
desiring
to be better. that thou wouldest
quicken me being dead in trespasses and sinnes. \*Gal 2.1/ that thou
wouldest inrich me with thy grace. and make me more fully thine. that
I might strengthened against my spirituall enemie. and my hope and
comfort was as thou gavest unto me to will. so thou wouldest not reject
me. But wouldest give unto me to doe according thy good pleasure. \phil
2/ [also] I acknowledge
*
in these yeeres till some of late: I have
not reveranced thy
I have bine something better.
or Lords day
Sabbaths
nor loved them so well to make them my
delight as thou requierest. \Isa 18.13/ but have sometimes longed to have
it past. that I might follow my vaine intentions. but now I am ashamed
for my thus offending. pardon me I beseech thee. and grant from henceforth
I may so consecrate /them\ as glorious to thee and as thou requierest that
thereby I may receive thy blessing whereby they may be sanctified and
profitable and delightfull to me. Yea and I extoll thy sacred Name O God
most hight for separating from the rest a Sabbath day.
and that so we may better
meditate of thy workes and glorifie thee psal [96] and I praise thee for
this testimony of thy love that thou given me liberty and meanes to keepe
a holy Sabbath [or then] that I may the better think of the everlasting
[rest]
that so
[wee] ceasing from there handy labour. the better might serve and celebrate
thine honor. Lord pardon \likewise/ I humbly beseech thee. my carlessnes
and contempt \neglect/ of thy word and service. with abuseing other of
thy gifts. When I am not worthy of the lest. yea pardon me for making no
better use of the good meanes which thou hast given me. as also my sullen.
wayward untowardnes. lukewarmnesse. uncheerefulnes. unteachablenes to any
thing that is good. ready to be fired with any temtation. rebellious
against thee tempting of thee. and quenching or griveing thy holy Spirit.
yea Lord I humbly pray
I and my fathers house
have [sinned wee have] commited iniquity and wee have done wickednes
in mercy to pardon
in me the sin of Athisme.
infidillity. distrustfullnes. inconstancy in good scoffing at it. my
dullnes. and weaknes in not resisting the temtations of Satan so much as
I should. and I humbly beseech thee to pardon the prid and vainnes which
my originall sinne pardon
and [illeg.] my not loveing and reverancing that sacrament of baptisme
nor the Lord Jesus my Blessed savier as I ought
my owne flesh.
and the world hath alured me to. yea and those sins which
my nature is least subject unto. yet can I not say I am altogether free
from. therefore I beseech thee to pardon my Anger. rashnesse. envy
impaciency. uncharitablenesse. yea my slouth and idlenesse in my vocation)
yea Lord forgive my disobedience to my superiours
*
and my censuring.
liying. and
[Yea] vaine thoughts idle
words. [Mat x] 36 squandering away my [tallet?] 20
slandering of others
my remembering of what I should forget
injuries. indignities. yea pardon wherein I have bine many waies cause of
others sinnes or offence unto them. ether by any ill example counsell
connivence silence or any waies occationed. yea Lord I here hu/m\bly
beseech thee to pardon wherein I have broken any of thy commandement
against thee or my neighbour. yea wherein I have any waies offended
in thought. word. and deede against thy divine maijestie
109
whether they be sinns of omission
*
[of] sinnes unrepeted. and
sinnes relapsed into after repentance of sinns of ignorance and against
the testimony of my conscience [and] of sinnes against the law of the
Church or state in which I live
or of action.
whether they be against thee. my selfe
or any yea pardon my misplaceing of my affections.\and/ sorrowing too
much for that or them which I should not (so that I have thought it a
punishment to me that I could not so weepe for my sinnes as I desire) with
somtimes my want of affection to others for omiting temperance and
raffting out of precious time yea pardon my /somtimes\ vaine and unseemly
mearth. and somtimes refusing to be comforted and slacknes to good in not
resolving \not/ to be so good as thy law requires. yea lord pardon my
imperfection in good duties (not being somtimes when nor as they should)
my being proud of
uncheerefullnes giving heed
to foolish things, and not trusting in thee as I ought. and those
weak performnances.
my douting and denying of thy
providence yea pardon according to thy great mercy my sinfull
carelessnesse by which many times I have occasioned relapses /and fallen
\ in\to/ those sinnes which formerly I purposed to amend.
O mercifull God pardon these sinnes which I have confessed to thee.
and many more which I am unable to resite. yea tho I were perfect yet I
know not my selfe \
searche the hearts and
tri[est] the [vaines] and rev 12.30
job 9.21/
but thou triest the harts and vaines; and
thine eyes behold my manifolde imperfections which I am unable to
God grant that my love may
abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment. and I may
[discerne] things that diff[er one] from another. that
I may be pure and without offence untill the day of Christ. filled with
the [frutes] of righteousnesse. which are by Jesus Christ unto thy glory
and [praise] o God. psa10.16
disurne
for \and/ if thou shouldest enter into judgment with me. I am not able to
answere thee one of a thousand for my sins have increased above the haires
of my head. my heart hath failed me. \psa 40.12/ And tho I have resited
these things that are hid in darknesse. and make the counsels of the
hearts manifest. \I cor 4./ neither is it fit I should doe so. who somtimes
thinke to well of my owne doing. and otherwhiles am carried beneath them.
so that I cannot give thee so much thankes for thine owne gifts by reason
of my weaknesse. yea how unable am I of my selfe to doe according as thou
Lord requirest. to search. and trie. and examine my waies. \Lam 3.4
I cor 11.28/ my understanding being darkened. and my will averse to any
thing which is