MY God, my Happiness, who art fairer than the Children of men, and who thy self art very Love as well as altogether lovely, draw me and I will run after thee. O wind up my Soul to the highest pitch of Love that my facultys will bear, and let me never alienate any degree of that noble Passion from thee its only due ob∣ject. Quench in me all terrene fires and sensual relishes, and do thou wound me deep, and strike me through with the arrows of a divine Passion, that as thou art all Beauty and Perfection, so I may be all Love and Devotion. My heart is rea∣dy O God, my heart is ready for a Burnt offer∣ing; send down then an holy fire from above to kindle the Sacrifice, and do thou continual∣ly fan and keep alive, and clarify the flame, that I may be ever ascending up to thee in de∣vout breathings, and pious Aspirations, till at length I ascend in Spirit to the Element of Love, where I shall know thee more clearly
A collection of miscellanies consisting of poems, essays, discourses, and letters occasionally written / by John Norris ...
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The Prayer.
Page 329
and love thee more Seraphically, and receive those peculiar coronets of glory thou hast re∣serv'd for those that eminently love thee,
Amen.