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O My God! I am sensible of my present Condition; that, during This Life I am in a Banishment from Paradice; caus'd by that sin, which I committed in my first Parent Adam; and that, by That Original, and many more Personal Transgressions, (where∣of I stand Guilty before Thee,) I am fallen into the Lowest State, that a poor Creature can (likely) be brought unto.
And I feel, that (by thy Grace, which Thou art pleas'd to Afford
me, even in this miserable Condi∣tion of mine) I do thereof Re∣pent me, and therefore Ought to range my self, (as I do,) among the Lowest of any that can pretend to be Thy Servants, (that is,) among the Penitents.
'Tis also by the same Grace, that Thou put'st me in the Humble Po∣sture of a Stranger and Way∣faring-man only in This World; by causing me to Turn again (by Little and Little, as the Motions and Conduct of Thy Holy Spirit Guide me) toward That Paradice, out of which, for my sins I was driven.
O keep me Thus Humbled, I beseech Thee, and never suffer me to forget either of these Low Con∣ditions, which are so proper to the state of a Sinner, and so proper to the state of a Convert too: Nor let me swell higher by the least proud
Conceit; That being It, that ruin'd me at First.
Take out of my Spirit all Incli∣nations to Things of Greatness or Port, and give Me a Holy Affecti∣on to Meanness, as being most suit∣able, to what, indeed, I am; to the Example of my Saviour Jesus Christ, as He liv'd here; and especially, to this present Cendes∣cention of His, in the Sacrament, Humbling himself to be, in such Ordinary and Despicable Ele∣ments, and this, at the Word of a poor frail Man.