 We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done ; And we have done those things which we ought not to have done; And there is no...  New Outlook - Page 571913Full view - About this book
 | George Haggitt - 1796 - 408 pages
...that is, like sheep who have deserted their shepherd, we have wandered from the paths of the Lord; " we have followed too " much the devices and desires of our own "hearts;" we have given ourselves too much up to the innate corruption of our nature, a corruption which we were born... | |
 | Church of England - 1802 - 604 pages
...minister. ALMIGHTY and most merciful father ! we have erred and strayed from tby ways like lost sheep ; we have followed too much the devices and desires...our own hearts ; we have offended against thy holy laws ; we have left undone those things which we ought to have done ; and we have done those those... | |
 | 1814
...shepherd's care, still inclined to stray ! How true an emblem of the weakness and frailty of man ! " We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts," This is, in fact, a plain avowal of a wicked and depraved nature : it is assumed, that the devices... | |
 | Church of England - 1810 - 466 pages
...kneeling. A LMIGHTYandmostmer-iJk ciiiil Father; We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires...our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done ; And we have done those things... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1810 - 516 pages
...our own use, When we say in our Liturgy, " We have erred and s rayed from thy ways like lost sheep; we have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts." Well might we have been left to wander till we had fallen a prey to the roaring lion that" eeketh to... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1810 - 518 pages
...our own use, when we say in our Liturgy, " We have erred and s.rayed from thy ways like lost sheep; we have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts." Well might we have been left to wander till we had fallen a prey to the roaring lion that -.eeketh... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1810 - 556 pages
...are, in our general confession, traced up to their proper source, the corruption of our nature : " We have followed " too much the devices and desires of our own '•hearts." Are our hearts full of evil devices and desires? Who will deny it? The evil is not adventitious, but... | |
 | 1811 - 872 pages
...holy and just and good ;" but we, as we have often confessed with our lips, instead of obeying then), have " followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts ; we have oQènded against" these "holy laws; we have left undone those things which we ought to have done, and... | |
 | Thomas Scott - 1811 - 408 pages
...P. 1xvi. 1. 24. ' The morning, &c.'6 That is, the name, or sin, of Adam is not mentioned in them. * We have followed too much the devices and desires ' of our own hearts.'7 But why is it evil to * follow ' the devices and desires of our own hearts,' if our hearts... | |
 | Church of England - 1815 - 450 pages
...Father; We have erred, and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the 32 devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; And we have done those things which... | |
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