The Lamentation

Through perfect repentance the sinner hath a sure trust in God: that his sins shall be washed away in Christ’s blood.

O Lord in thee is all my trust,
give ear unto my woeful cry:
Refuse me not that am unjust,
but bowing down thine heavenly eye,
Behold how I do still lament
my sins wherein I do offend:
O Lord for them shall I be shent,
sith thee to please I do intend.

 

No, no, not so, thy will is bent,
to deal with sinners in thine ire:
But when in heart they shall repent,
Thou grant’st with speed their just desire,
To thee therefore still shall I cry,
to wash away my sinful crime:
Thy blood O Lord is not yet dry,
but that it may help me in time.
 
Haste thee O Lord, haste thee I say,
to pour on me the gifts of grace:
That when this life shall flit away,
in heaven with thee I may have place.
Where thou dost reign eternally,
with God which once did down thee send
Where Angels sing continually,
to thee be praise world without end.

 

THE BOOK OF PSALMS

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