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AFTER CONFESSION.

O God of mercy and pity, haring now, through thy gracious goodness, disburdened my conscience of the guilt wherewith it was oppressed, and in the humblest manner I was able, discovered all the sins I could possibly think of to thy minister, my ghostly father, 1 most humbly beseech thee to accept this confession, and forgive me all my trespasses, as well such as I forgot as those which I re- membered.

Grant me grace, O Lord, to live more care- fully and diligently hereafter, and to abstain from my former follies, which I utterly de- test ; firmly purposing, through thy grace, never more to offend in them ; especially, O my merciful and most bountiful Saviour, give me grace to withstand those temptations wherewith I am most grievously infested (here they are to be mentioned) — as also to avoid all occasions of offending thee for the future.

O Blessed Virgin Mary, my holy patron [ name him or her], and all ye saints and an- gels, praise and extol our Lord for his bound- less goodness towards me, a most miserable sinner. Beseech him to accept of this, my humble confession, and to supply through his infinite mercies all its deficiencies. Beg of him to ratify, in heaven, the sentence of ab- solution, winch his minister, the priest, hath pronounced in my favour at the tribunal of confession. Amen