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Show favor to your people, O Lord, who turn to you in weeping, fasting, and prayer. For you are a merciful God, full of compassion, long-suffering, and abounding in steadfast love. You spare when we deserve punishment, and in your wrath you remember mercy. Spare your people, good Lord, spare us; in the multitude of your mercies, look upon us and forgive us; through the merits and mediation of your blessed Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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A Reformation-era plea for mercy, woven almost entirely from Scripture, that Cranmer set at the close of Ash Wednesday's penitential rite, then later prayer books dropped and finally restored.