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O Holy Ghost, who hast vouchsafed to reveale thy selfe our God and Lord to mor∣tall men, I most humbly beseech the immense clemency of thy goodnesse; that as thou doest breath where thou wilt, so grant to me, the affection of devotion: that as by thy wisdome I am created, and also by thy provi∣dence governed; so according o thy wonted Grace, let thy ho∣ly
vnction in all things teach me, and that by the intercession of our most blessed Father S. Fran∣cis: who thou hast giuen for the principall law giuer of this holy institution: and of all the Saincts, whom I doe now invocate; make me to be truly converted from the vanitie of this world: and as thou art the remission of all sin∣nes, so dissolue in me, the obliga∣tions of impietie, that depresse me; and make me fervent in the observation of this holy purpose, that in all tribulations and adyer∣sities, I may respire by thy neuer failing consolation, and liuing so∣berly, iustly, and piously, by true humilitie, and obedience: and grounded in fervent charitie, I may with happy perseverance ac∣complish, that which by thy grace I haue begun, which thou ô Lord vouchsafe to grant who
with God the Father, and his only begotten Sonne liuest and raignest world without end. A∣men.