The PRAYER.
MOst Holy Jesu, Thou art the Glory of thy people Israel, and a light to the Gentiles, and wert pleased to call the Gentiles to the adoration and knowledge of thy sacred Person and Laws, communicating the inestimable riches of thy holy Discipline to all, with an uni∣versal undistinguishing Love; give unto us spirits docible, pious, prudent and ductile, that no motion or invitation of Grace be ineffectual, but may produce excellent effects upon us, and the secret whispers of thy Spirit may prevail upon our Affections in order to Piety and Obedi∣ence, as certainly as the loudest and most clamorous Sermons of the Gospel. Create in us such Excellencies as are fit to be presented to thy glorious Majesty; accept of the Oblation of my self, and my entire services: but be thou pleased to verifie my Offering, and secure the pos∣session to thy self, that the enemy may not pollute the Sacrifice, or divide the Gift, or question the Title; but that I may be wholly thine, and for ever, clarifie my Understanding, sanctifie my Will, replenish my Memory with arguments of Piety; then shall I present to thee an Ob∣lation rich and precious as the treble gift of the Levantine Princes. Lord, I am thine, re∣ject me not from thy favour, exclude me not from thy presence; then shall I serve thee all the days of my life, and partake of the glories of thy Kingdom, in which thou reignest gloriously and eternally.