Confessions

13 Proceed in your confession, say to the Lord your God , O my faith , Holy, Holy, Holy, O Lord my God , in Your name have we been baptized , Father, Son, and Holy Ghost , in Your name do we baptize , Father, Son, and Holy Ghost , ^{9Matthew 28:19} because among us also in His Christ did God make heaven and earth, namely, the spiritual and carnal people of His Church . Yea, and our earth, before it received the form of doctrine, ^{10Romans 6:17} was invisible and formless, and we were covered with the darkness of ignorance . For Thou correctest man for iniquity, and Your judgments are a great deep. But because Your Spirit was borne over the waters, ^{11Genesis 1:3} Your mercy forsook not our misery, and Thou said, Let there be light, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. ^{12Matthew 3:2} Repent, let there be light. And because our soul was troubled within us, we remembered You, O Lord, from the land of Jordan, and that mountain equal unto Yourself, but little for our sakes; and upon our being displeased with our darkness, we turned unto You, and there was light. And, behold, we were sometimes darkness, but now light in the Lord. ^{13Ephesians 5:8}