The PRAYER,
O Holy Jesus, who didst fulfil all Righteousness, and didst live a life of evenness and obe∣dience and community, submitting thy self to all Rites and Sanctions of Divine ordi∣nance; give me grace to live in the fellowship of thy holy Church, a life of Piety, and with∣out singularity, receiving the sweet influence of thy Sacraments and Rites, and living in the purities and innocencies of my first Sanctification. I adore thy goodness infinite, that thou hast been pleased to wash my Soul in the Laver of Regeneration, that thou hast consigned me to the participation of thy favours by the holy 〈◊〉〈◊〉. Let me not return to the infirmities of the Old Man, whom thou hast crucified on thy Cross, and who was buried with thee in Baptism; nor 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the crimes of my sinsul years, which were so many recessions from 〈◊〉〈◊〉 puri∣ties: but let me ever receive the emissions of thy Divine Spirit, and be a Son of God, a part∣ner of thine immortal inheritance; and when thou seest it needful, I may receive testimony from Heaven, that I am thy servant and thy child. And grant that I may so walk, that I neither disrepute the honour of the Christian Institution, nor stain the whitenesses of that In∣nocence which thou didst invest my Soul withall when I put on the Baptismal Robe, nor break my holy Vow, nor lose my right of inheritance which thou hast given me by promise and grace; but that thou mayest love me with the love of a Father, and a Brother, and a Husband, and a Lord, and I serve thee in the communion of Saints, in the susception of Sacraments, in the actions of a holy life, and in a never-failing love or uninterrupted Devotion; to the glory of thy Name, and the promotion of all those Ends of Religion which thou hast designed in the ex∣cellent Oeconomy of Christianity. Grant this, Holy Jesus, for thy mercie's sake, and for the honour of thy Name, which is and shall be adored for ever and ever.