In August of 1662 around 2,000 ministers left the national church of England for the sake of conscience (they were called the non-conformists). You’ll have to read about this significant church history event elsewhere since I simply want to point out a few prayers of repentance that two pastors prayed the last Sunday of their parish ministry in the English state church. The pastors were Edmund Calamy (d. 1666) and Thomas Watson (d. 1686). Here are excerpts from their prayers. Notice the depth of their repentance and confession of sin.
“We confess we have forfeited all our mercies; we have heard much of God, Christ, and heaven with our ears, but there is little of God, Christ, and heaven in our hearts. We confess, many of us by hearing sermons, are sermon-proof; we know how to scoff and mock at sermons, but we know not how to live sermons”…
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