Confession
¶ A generall confession, to be made of the whole congregacion after the minister, knelyng.
ALMIGHTY and most mercifull Father, wee have erred and strayed from thy wayes, like lost sheepe, wee have followed too much the devices and desires of our owne hearts: wee have offended against thy holy Lawes, wee have left undone those things which we ought to have done, and we have done those things which wee ought not to have done, and there is no health in us: but thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us miserable offenders, spare thou them, O God, which confesse their faults, restore thou them that bee penitent, according to thy promises declared unto mankinde, in Christ Jesu our Lord: and grant, O most mercifull Father, for his sake, that we may hereafter live a godly, righteous, and sober life, to the glory of thy holy name. Amen.
¶ The absolution or remission of sinnes to be pronounced by the Minister alone.
ALMIGHTY God, the father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which desireth not the deathe of a sinner, but rather that he maye turne from his wickednesse and lyve: and hath geven power and commaundement to hys Ministers, to declare and pronounce to his people beyng penitent, the absolution and remission of their synnes: he pardoneth and absolveth all them which truly repent, and unfeinedly beleve his holy gospel. Wherefore we beseche him to graunt us true repentaunce and hys holy spirite, that those thynges may please hym, whych we doe at thys present, and that the rest of our life hereafter may be pure and holy so that at the last we may come to his eternall ioye, through Jesus Christe our lorde.
¶ The people shall answere.
Amen.