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O LORD, father, and sovereign ruler of my life, leave me not to their counsel: nor suffer me to fall by them.
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Who will set scourges over my thoughts, and the discipline of wisdom over my heart, that they spare me not in their ignorances, and that their sine may not appear:
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Lest my ignorances increase, and my offences be multiplied, and my sine abound, and I fall before my adversaries, and my enemy rejoice over me?
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O Lord, father, and God of my life, leave me not to their devices
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Give me not haughtiness of my eyes, and turn away from me all coveting.
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Take from me the greediness of the belly, and let not the lusts of the flesh take hold of me, and give me not over to a shameless and foolish mind.
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Hear, O ye children, the discipline of the mouth: and he that will keep it shall not perish by his lips, nor be brought to fall into most wicked works.