...capacities and ingenuities to boot, we have collected and gathered these sound and infallible objection* against the book of common-prayer, or liturgy, as...confession will lay open our disloyalty, our intrusion, ourselves, by omitting of duties, and committing of villainies in church and state, to deserve justly...

...acknowledge ourselves to be silly horned beasts and cuckolds; our children, by that reckoning, should he lambs, our wives ewes, and we, their innocent husbands,...deserve justly the severity of God, and the King's laws to be our deserved wages : besides, we hold it to be a retractive diminishing of valour, a popish...

...irresistible weight. Lastly, let us remember, in how many instances we have all left undone those things which we ought to have done, and done those things which we ought not to have done. Now, whoever has a serious sense of this, will most earnestly desire to supply the good,...

...from God's ways, like lost sheep;" made light of his Divine injunctions; "left undone those things which we ought to have done, and done those things which we ought not to have done; and there is no health in us." And you know that God is holy and just, and that he will...

...others further than we have gone ourselves.—In shorj, how often have we left undone those things which we ought to have done ;. and done those things which we ought not to have done! I run ever all these points of miscarriage, to which numberless others might be added,...

...others further than we have gone ourselves.—In short, how often have tve left undone those things which we ought to have done ; and done those things which we ought not to have done ! I run over all these points of miscarriage, to which numberless others might be added,...

...to obey ? Never given way to proud, selfish, angry tempers ? Have we never left undone those things which we ought to have done, and done those things which we ought not to have done? Alas ! have we not all sinned, and come short, oh 1 how far short, of the glory of God...

...sorrow, that, under their baneful influence, " we have" but too often, both " left undone those things, which we ought to have done, and done those things, which we ought not to have done."—A most extensive, but most inevitable admission! For—which of us is not conscious,...

...like lost sheep ? Have we not offended against God's holy laws ? Have we not left undone those things which we ought to have done, and done those things which we ought not to have done ? And if we have committed no flagrant breach of the divine commandments, what have been...

...we have so long neglected this plain injunction ? Well may we say " we have left undone those things which we ought to have done, and done those things which we ought not to have done." If we see onrx folly, and intend to reverse our practice, let no man wait for the example...