be an union and incorporation with Thee, a derivation of Thy Life into mine! Thou haft loved me above all things; do thou poffefs me intirely! Thou haft given thyself in exchange for me, to be in me instead of myself; do thou alone form and act me!

O may my Faith, which I humbly befeech thee to preserve, to ftrengthen, to quicken, to illuminate, and fanctify continually, be an infeparable union of fpirits between Thee my JESUS in heaven, and my foul on earth! May I never be found alone, nor in company with vanity and fenfuality, with infidelity, pride, and malignity, but Thee and me always together; me in Thee, as mine Eternal Root; Thou in me, as an unfading, unperishing Branch of Thyself!

Altered from Dr. JOHN EVERARD.

The Almighty Power of GOD THE FATHER, THE ETERNAL FATHER OF Life, Light, and Love, vanquish and overcome, in every heart, all enmity and oppofition; every thing that the spirit of this world, and the darkness, impurity, and malignity, of fallen nature prompts us to; and give us ftrength and power, to do and suffer his most holy and righteous will in all things!

THE MOST BRIGHT WISDOM OF GOD enlighten us, and change us into the fame mind, temper, and fpirit; that we may be perfectly conformed to His Heavenly Image, and become acceptable in the fight of His Heavenly Father!

The Unspeakable and Superabounding Love OF THE HOLY GHOST pierce through all oppofition in us; kindle and unite our loves unto Himself, with a

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most ardent and effectual turning all our powers and ftrengths; fo that forgetting those things that are behind, we may follow his moft Sweet Calling and Affectionate Drawing, whereto, from Everlafting, The More than Moft-glorious TRINITY hath predeftinated us; namely, from the love of our carnal felves, and this deceitful world, to the Enjoyment of HIMSELF in all his Spiritual Riches and Infinite Bleffedness; so that, by Grace, we may be made that, which we are not nor can be by nature. To THE ETERNAL GOD, FATHER, SON, and HOLY SPIRIT, be afcribed all Honour, Power, and Majefty; and rendered all Reverence, Obedience, and Love, throughout Eternal Ages. Amen.

From KEMPIS.

The earth and the heavens are Thine, O LORD, and all their fulness! I defire to make a free furrender of myself to Thee, and to remain Thine for ever.

In fingleness of heart, O LORD, I now offer up myself, a facrifice of perpetual obedience and praise. Accept this oblation in union with the Sacred Oblation of Thy Precious Body, which I commemorate in the prefence of affisting and glorifying Angels, as the Salvation of fallen man.

LORD, all the fins which, from the time I was capable of finning to this hour, I have committed before Thee and Thy holy Angels; I offer upon Thy Propitiatory Altar, to be confumed in The Fire of Thy Love! O purify my fpirit from all defilement; reftore The Grace which I have loft; grant me full and free pardon, and feal that pardon with the kifs of peace! What can I do, but humbly confefs and bewail my exceeding finfulness, and inceffantly implore the benefits of Thy Propitiation ? Here, then, in Thy moft Holy Prefence, I now plead and implore them; O mercifully

cifully hear my prayer! I now detest my fins, and by Thy Grace will never more fubmit to their hateful tyranny: I now grieve for them in the bitterness of forrow, and will grieve for them as long as I live, that contrition may "work "in me repentance unto falvation, never to be repented of. Have mercy upon

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me, O God, according to Thy Loving "Kindness; and according to the mul" titude of Thy Tender Mercies, blot "out all my tranfgreffions !" O fave my foul, which Thou haft redeemed with Thy Precious Blood! Behold, I refign myself wholly to Thy Disposal ! deal with me according to Thy Mercy, not according to my tranfgreffions!

Small and imperfect as it is, I offer Thee all my goodness, that Thou mayst fanctify it, and impart to it new degrees of strength and beauty; and by the continual influences of Thy Spirit, mayst animate a slothful and unprofitable creaB 4

ture,