...acknowledging that by the breach of all thy holy laws and commandments, we are become wild olive-branches, strangers to thy covenant of grace ; we have defaced...ourselves thy sacred image imprinted in us by creation j we have sinned against heaven and before thee, and are no more worthy to be called thy children....

...task-master, is a most merciful Father, he bids them, "Arise and go to their Father, and say unto him, Father, we have sinned against heaven, and before thee, and are no more worthy to be called thy sons." St. Luke xv. 1 8, 1 9 . These are the words which the Church puts into the mouth of the fearful...

...speak so much louder than our lips, show that we have been ungrateful and disobedient. We have sinned before Thee, and are no more worthy to be called thy children. Still thy mercy endureth for ever. Like the forgiving father who beheld his returning son while he...

...gracious in thy eight, and acceptable unto thee, О Lord, our God, our strength, and our Redeemer. О eternal God, and most merciful Father in Jesus Christ,...and are no more worthy to be called thy children. О admit us into the place even of hired servants. Lord, thou hast formed us in our mothers' wombs,...

...ourselves before the throne of thy merci'-s' seat, acknowledging that, by the breach of all thy holy la\va and commandments, we are become wild olive branches,...and are no more worthy to be called thy children. О admit us into the place even of hired servants. Lord, thou hast formed us in our mothers' wombs,...

...we would come to Thee as thy children, but nh, we stand convicted, by our life and our hearts, that we have sinned against heaven and before Thee, and are no more worthy to be called thy children. Father, we would ask the pardon of our sins; but, alas, we have so often asked and received forgiveness,...

...salvation. Alas! how little have we realized the obligations which our early dedication unto God involved! we have sinned against Heaven and before thee, and are no more worthy to be called thy children. Lord grant unto us the grace of true repentance, that as we have done iniquity in the time past, we...

...the glories of thy love. We thank Thee, that thou hast granted to the pure in heart to see Thee. that we have sinned against heaven and before Thee, and are no more worthy to be called thy children. Father, we would ask the pardon of our sins ; but, alas, we have so often asked and received forgiveness...

...evil, and we have yielded to the temptation; in thought, word, and deed, we have committed iniquity ; we have sinned against heaven and before thee, and are no more worthy to be called thy children. Yet is thy mercy great unto the heavens, and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds. Who, O Lord,...

...; and we have made our heart as an adamant. We have sinn'd, O our Almighty Father ; we have sinn'd against heaven, and before thee, and are no more worthy to be call'd thy sons. Wherefore we abhor ourselves, we bow down our heads, and repent in dust and ashes....