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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, | Luke vii. |
| Who, by graciously looking on Peter when he thrice denied thee, didst move him to acknowledge his sin, and to shed tears of penitence, | Luke xxii |
| Who when hanging on the cross, didst promise Paradise to the penitent robber, | Luke xxiii. |
| Who didst no sin, yet didst bear our sins in thy body upon the tree, | 1 Pet. ii |
| Who wast bruised for our sins, | Isaias liii. |
IV.
| Who lovest all things that are, and hatest none of the things which thou hast made, Have mercy on us. | Wisd. xi. |
| Who provest thy elect, as gold in the furnace, | Wisd. iii. |
| Who, when we sin, givest us time and place for repentance, | Wisd. xii. |
| Who scourgest every son whom thou receivest and lovest, | Heb. xii. |
| Who rebukest and chastisest such as thou lovest, | Apoc. iii. |
| Who art not willing that any should perish, but that all should return to penance, | 2 Pet. iii. |
| Who camest to seek and to save that which was lost, | Luke xix. |
| Who hast mercy upon all, and overlookest the sins of men for the sake of repentance, | Wisd. xi. |
| Who wert made the propitiation for our sins, | 1 John ii. |
| Who hast mercy upon sinners, when they turn to thee in fasting, weeping, and mourning, | Joel ii. |
| Who wilt have mercy, and not sacrifice, | Matt. ix. |
| Who camest not to call the just but sinners to penance. | Ibid. |
| Who, by thy benignity, leadest us to penance. | Rom. ii. |
| Who didst call Paul by a miracle, when he was a persecutor and devastator of the churches, | Acts ix. |
