Lord, will you listen to us while we confess before you how unworthy we have been of all your goodness; for we are a sinful generation, even as our fathers were? We have sinned, times without number; and even those of us who are your people, and have been born into your house, we have even more than others to mourn over our sin; for you have made us more sensible of it, and we have sinned against greater light, which we do sorrowfully confess.
Our sins of pride, of unbelief, of hasty judgment of your providence, our neglect of searching into your mind in the Word, our neglect of possessing your mind in our daily life, our transgressions and our shortcomings, make against us a great list of accusations. But we bless you that they will not stand as accusations; for, behold, none can lay anything to the charge of your people, seeing all was laid on your Son.