 | Charles Simeon - 1810 - 518 pages
...all arc taught to adopt them for 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... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1810 - 516 pages
...all are taught to adopt them for 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... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1810 - 556 pages
...are, in our general confession, traced up to their proper source, the corruption of our nature : " We have followed " too much the devices and desires of our own '•hearts." Are our hearts full of evil devices and desires? Who will deny it? The evil is not adventitious, but... | |
 | 1811 - 868 pages
...have " followed too much the devices and desires «four own hearts ; we have oilendeii against" these "holy laws; we have left undone those things which...have done, and we have done those things which we ought not to have done." And by that holy, just, and. good law which we have broken, we stand condemned... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Scott - 1811 - 408 pages
...P. 1xvi. 1. 24. ' The morning, &c.'6 That is, the name, or sin, of Adam is not mentioned in them. * We have followed too much the devices and desires ' of our own hearts.'7 But why is it evil to * follow ' the devices and desires of our own hearts,' if our hearts... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1813 - 282 pages
...The whole tenor of our lives is but too justly marked in those follow* ing acknowledgments, " We ham offended against thy holy laws ; we have left undone those things which we ought to have done : and have done those things which ice ought not to have done." Permit me to... | |
 | Church of England - 1815 - 450 pages
...Confession In be said uf the whole Congregation after the Minuter, all kneeling. A LMIGHTY and most jL\. merciful Father; We have erred, and strayed from thy...ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the 41 devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone... | |
 | Church of England, Sir John Bayley - 1816 - 738 pages
...me : A general Confeuion, to be laid of tie •whole Congregation after the Minuter, all kneeling. ALMIGHTY and most merciful Father, We have erred and...the devices and desires of our own hearts : We have ofr fended against thy holy Laws : We have left undone those things which we ought to have done ; And... | |
 | Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - 1816 - 664 pages
...hear in this place. We have confessed that " we have erred and strayed like lost sheep" — that " we have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts" — and that " there is no health in us." We also know, that nothing is more plainly declared in the... | |
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Almighty and most merciful Father : We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. 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... 
