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LEt the subject of your prayer, be the qualities of this gift, which are (1.) to make us relish God, & all that unites us to him; (2.) to give us an extreme disgust of all pleasures of the senses, & all naturall satis∣faction; (3.) to make us esteem, love, & search with passion, sufferings, dis∣grace, & abjection, of which we have such a horrour; (4.) to make an in∣tire
separation of a heart, from all fondness of creatures, as also from all that is sensuall in devotion, & from all that is not God.
Come o holy Ghost, come & en∣lighten my mind with this gift of wisdome, come & destroy in me the love of the world: grant that I may take no relish in any thing but in God, that God may be all to me, & creatures may be nothing: grant that I may love contempt which my Savi∣our so esteemed, & that the cross may be the onely o••ject of my love.
2. Beg often during the first day, that is the day of Pentecost, the gift of wisdome, which consists in loving spirituall things, make an extraordi∣nary visit to the blessed Sacrament, to beg this day as well as throughout the whole Octave, the Office of the holy Ghost, & in the morning after your prayers, say, veni Creator, as in the end of this book, & give every day of the Octave, some little almes to the poor, to obtain the gifts of the holy Ghost, whom the holy Chruch stiles the Father of the poor.