Invitation
DERELY beloved brethren, the Scripture moveth us in sundry places, to acknowledge and confesse our manifold sins and wickednesse, and that we should not dissemble nor cloke them before the face of Almighty God our heavenly Father, but confesse them with an humble, lowly, penitent & obedient heart to the end that we may obtaine forgiveness of the same by his infinite goodnesse and mercie. And although we ought at all times humbly to acknowledge our sinnes before God, yet ought we most chiefly so to doe, when we assemble and meet together, to render thanks for the great benefits that wee have received at his hands, to set foorth his most worthy praise, to heare his most holy word, and to aske those things which be requisite & necessary, aswel for the body as the soule. Wherfore I pray and beseech you, as many as be here present, to accompany me with a pure heart and humble voyce, unto the throne of the heavenly grace, saying after me.