DEVOTIONS FOR CONFESSION
Prayers before Confession
Each confession should be made as carefully as if it were to be the last one of our lives. First, we should beg God’s mercy, and ask Him to give us light to know our sins, and grace to detest them; then diligently examine our consciences.
A PRAYER FOR FORGIVENESS
(Psalm L)
HAVE mercy upon me, O God; according to Thy great mercy.
And according to the multitude of Thy tender mercies: blot out my transgression.
Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity: and cleanse me from my sin.
For I acknowledge my transgression: and my sin 1s always before me.
Against Thee only have I sinned, and done evil in Thy sight: that Thou mayest be justified when Thou givest sentence, and mayest be victorious when Thou art judged.
For behold, I was born in iniquities: and in sins did my mother conceive me.
