We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; And we have done those things which we ought not to have done; And there is no health... The pocket prayer book [compiled by R. Wilkinson]. - Page 40by Pocket prayer book - 1844Full view - About this book
| George Haggitt - 1796 - 408 pages
...that is, like sheep who have deserted their shepherd, we have wandered from the paths of the Lord; " we have followed too " much the devices and desires of our own "hearts;" we have given ourselves too much up to the innate corruption of our nature, a corruption which we were born... | |
| George Burder - 1835 - 654 pages
...conscience already smites you, and your own mouth must certainly condemn you. How often have you said, " We have offended against thy holy laws ! we have left...have done ! and we have done those things which we ought not to have done !" Probably you have often joined in the church- service, and said, after the... | |
| John Disney - 1802 - 342 pages
...minister. ALMIGHTY and most merciful father ! \ve have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep ; we have followed too much the devices and desires...have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done. — But, we entreat thee, o GOD! to have mercy upon us, thine offending creatures.... | |
| Church of England - 1802 - 604 pages
...minister. ALMIGHTY and most merciful father ! we have erred and strayed from tby ways like lost sheep ; we have followed too much the devices and desires...holy laws ; we have left undone those things which we ought to have done ; and we have done those those things which we ought not to have done. — But,... | |
| 1814
...shepherd's care, still inclined to stray ! How true an emblem of the weakness and frailty of man ! " We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts," This is, in fact, a plain avowal of a wicked and depraved nature : it is assumed, that the devices... | |
| Church of England - 1810 - 466 pages
...kneeling. A LMIGHTYandmostmer-iJk ciiiil Father; We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires...have done ; And we have done those things which we ought not to have done : And there is no health in us. But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us, miserable... | |
| Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1810 - 556 pages
...'read a page of history, or look into a hospital, without joining with our church in her confession that " we have followed too much " the devices and desires of our own hearts." A wibe and holy Being could not have made us what we are: some cause must be assigned, posterior to... | |
| Charles Simeon - Sermons - 1810 - 516 pages
...our own use, When we say in our Liturgy, " We have erred and s rayed from thy ways like lost sheep; we have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts." Well might we have been left to wander till we had fallen a prey to the roaring lion that" eeketh to... | |
| Charles Simeon - Sermons - 1810 - 518 pages
...our own use, when we say in our Liturgy, " We have erred and s.rayed from thy ways like lost sheep; we have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts." Well might we have been left to wander till we had fallen a prey to the roaring lion that -.eeketh... | |
| Religion - 1811 - 872 pages
...holy and just and good ;" but we, as we have often confessed with our lips, instead of obeying then), have " followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts ; we have oQènded against" these "holy laws; we have left undone those things which we ought to have done, and... | |
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