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|Who didst receive and eat with publicans and sinners, || Luke v., xv. |- |Who didst forgive Mary Magdalene her many sins, because she loved much, |- |Who, by graciously looking on Peter when he thrice denied thee, didst move him to acknowledge his sin, and to shed tears of penitence, |- |Who when hanging on the cross, didst promise Paradise to the penitent robber, |- |Who didst no sin, yet didst bear our sins in thy body upon the tree, |- |Who wast bruised for our sins, |}
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| Who lovest all things that are, and hatest none of the things which thou hast made, Have mercy on us. |
| Who provest thy elect, as gold in the furnace, |
| Who, when we sin, givest us time and place for repentance, |
| Who scourgest every son whom thou receivest and lovest, |
| Who rebukest and chastisest such as thou lovest, |
| Who art not willing that any should perish, but that all should return to penance, |
| Who earnest to seek and to save that which was lost, |
| Who hast mercy upon all, and overlookest the sins of men for the sake of repentance, |
| Who wert made the propitiation for our sins, |
| Who hast mercy upon sinners, when they turn to thee in fasting, weeping, and mourning, |
| Who wilt have mercy, and not sacrifice, |
| Who earnest not to call the just but sinners to penance. |
| Who, by thy benignity, leadest us to penance. |
| Who didst call Paul by a miracle, when he was a persecutor and devastator of the churches, |
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