Prayer for forgiveness

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Often appears with: religious persecution and toleration · prayer and worship · justice as a virtue · equity, mercy, and pardon · worldly vanities vs devotion · water and blood testimony · translation and the transmission of texts · timorous and mistrust · the fear of death · the earth and its formation · salvation at the day of doom · roll assurance

Usually: argument (3) · exhortation (3) · confronting death (2) · detachment (2) · lament (2) · letter or document (1) · narrative (1) · crisis of belief (1) · sudden reversal of fortune (1) · the test or trial (1)

The first New Testament printed in English primary

William Tyndale · 1520s; English translation of the Pentateuch and New Testament material issued in the 1520s (later printed English Bible contents in this edition).
Chapter .j. > Chapter 22: (284/335)

The passage continues 1 John with victory over the world through faith in Jesus as God’s Son, testimony of water and blood, prayer for sins not unto death, and then begins 2 John with the “elect lady” and teaching about Christ’s flesh.

And this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. Who is it that overcometh the world: but he which believeth that Iesus is the son of God? This Iesus Christ is he that came by water and blood, not by water only: but by water and blood. And it is the spirit that beareth witness, because the spirit is truth. For there are three which bear record in heaven, the father, the word, and the holy ghost. An…

The Koran (Al-Qur'an) primary

Muhammad (Al-Qur'an content traditionally attributed; Rodwell as translator) · c. 610–632 CE (revelations compiled into the Qur'an after the prophet’s death)
Book carefully concocted from various sources, and with much extraneous aid, and published as a divine oracle, then it would seem that the author is at once open to the charge of the grossest imposture, and even of impious blasphemy. The evidence rather shews, that in all he did and wrote, Muhammad was actuated by a sincere desire to deliver his countrymen from the grossness of its debasing idolatries–that he was urged on by an intense desire to proclaim that great truth of the Unity of the Godhead which had taken full possession of his own soul–that the end to be attained justified to his mind the means he adopted in the production of his Suras–that he worked himself up into a belief that he had received a divine call–and that he was carried on by the force of circumstances, and by gradually increasing successes, to believe himself the accredited messenger of Heaven. The earnestness of those convictions which at Mecca sustained him under persecution, and which perhaps led him, at any price as it were, and by any means, not even excluding deceit and falsehood, to endeavour to rescue his countrymen from idolatry,–naturally stiffened at Medina into tyranny and unscrupulous violence. At the same time, he was probably, more or less, throughout his whole career, the victim of a certain amount of self-deception. A cataleptic13 subject from his early youth, born–according to the traditions–of a highly nervous and excitable mother, he would be peculiarly liable to morbid and fantastic hallucinations, and alternations of excitement and depression, which would win for him, in the eyes of his ignorant countrymen, the credit of being inspired. It would be easy for him to persuade himself that he was "the seal of the Prophets," > Book had believed, it had surely been better for them! Believers there are among them, but most of them are perverse. (5/73)

The passage answers demands for miracle proof, asserts every person tastes death and faces resurrection judgment, emphasizes creation as a sign for reflection, and depicts prayers for forgiveness and promised gardens for the righteous.

To those who say, "Verily, God hath enjoined us that we are not to credit an apostle until he present us a sacrifice which fire out of Heaven shall devour," SAY: Already have apostles before me come to you with miracles, and with that of which ye speak. Wherefore slew ye them? Tell me, if ye are men of truth. And if they treat thee as a liar, then verily apostles have been treated as liars before thee, though they …

The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come primary

John Bunyan · c. 1675–1677 (Part 1 composed and issued as a complete work; Part 2 followed later)
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Christian reaches the top of the hill and hears Timorous and Mistrust warn of lions ahead, then loses his roll due to sleep, prays for forgiveness, finds it under the settle, and presses on despite approaching darkness.

to life lies here. Come, pluck up heart, let's neither faint nor fear; Better, though difficult, the right way to go, Than wrong, though easy, where the end is woe." {104} The other two also came to the foot of the hill; but when they saw that the hill was steep and high, and that there were two other ways to go, and supposing also that these two ways might meet again, with that up which Christian went, on the other…

The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems primary

Geoffrey Chaucer · c. 1387–1400 (composition of The Canterbury Tales and included poems; some items likely earlier/later)
i.e. > Act, which was passed soon after, 5 H. IV. c. iv., to make it felony ‘to multiply gold or silver, or to use the art of multiplication.’” Tyrwhitt finds in the prologue some colour for the hypothesis that this Tale was intended by Chaucer to begin the return journey from Canterbury; but against this must be set the fact that the Yeoman himself expressly speaks of the distance to Canterbury yet to be ridden. (40/112)

In a prayer-like retractation, Chaucer/P arson-like narrator asks forgiveness for guilts and especially for translations and writings in worldly vanities, and prays for grace for repentance, penitence, confession, and satisfaction.

*PRECES DE CHAUCERES* <1> *Prayer of Chaucer* Now pray I to you all that hear this little treatise or read it, that if there be anything in it that likes them, that thereof they thank our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom proceedeth all wit and all goodness; and if there be anything that displeaseth them, I pray them also that they arette [impute] it to the default of mine unconning [unskilfulness], and not to my will, tha…

Three translations of the Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side primary

Ali, Abdullah Yusuf; Pickthall, Marmaduke William; Shakir, M. H. · -610 to -632 (revelation); Qur'an as compiled afterward
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The text describes believers and the Messenger as accepting Allah, angels, scriptures, and messengers without distinguishing among them, and ends with a prayer for forgiveness and a journeying return to Allah.

AL-E-IMRAN (THE FAMILY OF 'IMRAN, THE HOUSE OF 'IMRAN) Total Verses: 200 Revealed At: MADINA --------------------------------------------------------------------- In the name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful. 003.001 Y: A. L. M. P: Alim. Lam. Mim. S: Alif Lam Mim. 003.002 Y: Allah! There is no god but He,-the Living, the Self-Subsisting, Eternal. P: Allah! There is no God save Him, the Alive, …