The PRAYER.
O Eternal and ever-Blessed Jesu, who didst chuse Disciples to be witnesses of thy Life and Miracles, so adopting man into a participation of thy great imployment of bringing us to Heaven by the means of a holy Doctrine; be pleased to give me thy grace, that I may 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and revere their Persons whom thou hast set over me, and follow their Faith, and imitate their Lives, while they imitate thee; and that I also in my capacity and proportion may do some of the meaner offices of spiritual building, by Prayers, and by holy Discourses, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Correption, and friendly Exhortations, doing advantages to such Souls with whom I shall con∣verse. And since thou wert pleased to enter upon the stage of the World with the commence∣ment of Mercy and a Miracle, be pleased to visit my Soul with thy miraculous grace, turn my water into wine, my natural desires into supernatural perfections, and let my sorrows be turned into joys, my sins into vertuous habits, the weaknesses of humanity into communicati∣ons of the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 nature; that since thou keepest the best unto the last, I may by thy assi∣stance grow from Grace to Grace, till thy Gifts be turned to Reward, and thy Graces to parti∣cipation of thy Glory, O Eternal and ever-Blessed Jesu.