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The PRAYER.
O Eternal Jesu, who didst receive great power, that by it thou mightest convey thy Fa∣ther's mercies to us impotent and wretched people; give me grace to believe that hea∣venly Doctrine which thou didst ratifie with arguments from above, that I may fully assent to all those mysterious Truths which integrate that Doctrine and Discipline in which the obliga∣tions of my duty and the hopes of my felicity are deposited. And to all those glorious verificati∣ons of thy Goodness and thy Power add also this Miracle, that I, who am stained with Le∣prosie of sin, may be cleansed, and my eyes may be opened, that I may see the wondrous things of thy Law; and raise thou me up from the death of sin to the life of righteousness, that I may for ever walk in the land of the living, abhorring the works of death and darkness: that as I am by thy miraculous mercy partaker of the first, so also I may be accounted worthy of the second Resurrection; and as by Faith, Hope, Charity and Obedience I receive the fruit of thy Mi∣racles in this life, so in the other I may partake of thy Glories, which is a mercy above all Mi∣racles. Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. Lord, I believe; help mine unbe∣lief: and grant that no 〈◊〉〈◊〉 or incapacity of mine may hinder the wonderful operations of thy Grace; but let it be thy first Miracle to turn my water into wine, my barrenness into fruitfulness, my aversations from thee into unions and intimate adhesions to thy infinity, which is the fountain of mercy and power. Grant this for thy mercie's sake, and for the honour of those glorious Attributes in which thou hast revealed thy self and thy Father's excellencies to the world, O Holy and Eternal Jesu.