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Pare My Soul for a Happy Passage

A prayer from The Golden Manual, sourced from an older public-domain edition.

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Pare My Soul for a Happy Passage

O Jesus, all the sins which I have committed by my hearing. I have taken delight in the perfumes of this world, which are all nothing but corruptions ; now let my heart and prayers ascend like incense in thy sight ; and par- don me, O Jesus, all the sins which I have committed by my smelling. My tongue hath in many ways offended both in speak- ing and tasting ; now let its whole business be to cry for mercy; and pardon me, dear Jesus, all the sins which I have committed by words, or by excesses in eating or in drinking. My hands have been full of evil ; they have wrought many follies, injurious to myself and to my neighbour ; now let them be lifted up to heaven, in testimony of a penitent heart; and pardon me, O Lord, all the sins which I have committed by the ill use of my hands. My feet have gone astray in the paths of vanity and sin ; now let me walk in the way of thy commandments ; and forgive me, O Lord, all the sins which I have com- mitted by my disordered steps. Let my heart be now thy temple, the temple of thy Holy Spirit; and pardon me all the sins by which I have banished thee from my heart, and defiled my soul. By this holy anointing, and the power of thy grace, O God, forgive me all my sins, and convert my heart wholly to thee, that I may cheerfully submit to death, in punishment of my offences, and so enter into thy eternal rest. Amen

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