\NormalFont\ShortTitle{PRAYER OF MANASSEH}

{\MT PRAYER OF MANASSEH



\par }\OneChap {\PP \VerseOne{1}Lord God Almighty of our fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and of their just seed,


\par }{\PP \VS{2}which madest heaven and earth, with all the adorning of those
{\ADD{[or them]}},


\par }{\PP \VS{3}which hast marked the sea by the word of thy commandment, which hast enclosed altogether the depth, or the deepness, of waters, and hast marked
{\EM{them}} to thy fearedful and praiseable name,


\par }{\PP \VS{4}which all men dread, and tremble of the cheer of thy virtue,


\par }{\PP \VS{5}and the wrath of thy menacing
{\ADD{[or thy threatening]}} on sinners is unsuffer-able,
{\EM{either may not be sustained}}.


\par }{\PP \VS{6}Soothly the mercy of thy promise is full-great and unsearchable,
{\EM{either may not be comprehended by man’s wit}};


\par }{\PP \VS{7}for thou art the Lord most high over all earth;
{\EM{thou art}} patient, or long-abiding, and much merciful, and doing penance, or repenting, on the malices of men. Truly, Lord, by thy goodness thou hast promised penance of forgiveness of sins,
{\EM{that is, forgiving sins for repenting of men}};


\par }{\PP \VS{8}and thou,
{\EM{Lord, that art}} God of just men, hast not set penance to just men, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to them that sinned not against thee.


\par }{\PP \VS{9}{\EM{But}} ({\EM{thou settest penance unto me, that am a sinner}}), for I have sinned more than the number is of the gravel of the sea;


\par }{\PP \VS{10}my wickednesses be multiplied. I am bowed with much bond of iron, and no breathing is to me; for I have stirred thy wrathfulness, and I have done evil before thee, and I have set abominations, and I have multiplied offensions.


\par }{\PP \VS{11}And now, I bow the knees of mine heart, and beseech goodness of thee, Lord.


\par }{\PP \VS{12}I have sinned, Lord; I have sinned, and I acknowledge my wicked-ness.


\par }{\PP \VS{13}I ask, and I pray thee, Lord; forgive thou to me, forgive thou to me; lose thou me not altogether with my wickednesses, neither reserve thou evils to me without end.


\par }{\PP \VS{14}For, Lord, by thy great mercy thou shalt save me,
{\EM{most}} unworthy
{\EM{wretch}}, and I shall praise thee ever in all the days of my life; for all the virtue,
{\EM{that is, all those orders of angels}}, of heavens praiseth thee, and to thee is glory into worlds of worlds. Amen.


\par }