The PRAYER.
HOly and merciful Jesus, who art the great principle and the instrument of conveying to us the charity and mercies of Eternity, who didst love us when we were enemies, for∣give us when we were debtors, recover us when we were dead, ransom us when we were slaves, relieve us when we were poor, and naked, and wandring, and full of sadness and ne∣cessities; give us the grace of Charity, that we may be pitiful and compassionate of the needs of our necessitous Brethren, that we may be apt to relieve them, and that according to our duty and possibilities we may rescue them from their calamities. Give us courteous, affable, and liberal souls; let us by thy example forgive our debtors, and love our enemies, and do to them offices of civility and tenderness and relief; always propounding thee for our pattern, and thy mercies for our precedent, and thy Precepts for our rule, and thy Spirit for our guide: that we, shewing mercy here, may receive the mercies of Eternity by thy merits, and by thy cha∣rities, and dispensation, O Holy and merciful Jesus.