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1. O My God I am intirly yours, be you all in me, be you all things to me, and let all things else be nothing to me.
2. Lord let me do and suffer all by you, in you, and for you; let me forthwith dye to my self, and let me live; and allways remain in you.
3. O the God of my hart, and my
Portion for eternity, be you the be∣ginning and end of all my actions, let me plunge and loose my self in∣tirely in you.
1. O Justice of my God, content your self, be you pleased without contenting me.
2. You are all, my God, and I am nothing before you: I am content that all joy and consolation be yours, and that nothing, and the privation of all comforts be myne. O content∣ment, joy, and happyness of my God, you are dearer to me then my owne satisfaction.
3. My God! how good are you to suffer me to be in the miserable state I am in? Permit that I sacri∣fice; the satisfaction of my hart to that of yours; I am pleased with my condition because it pleases you; and
I am here in your presence for no other end then to please you.
4. O my God, my all; my God, my love, my joy, my hope, let me cease to be to my self, that you may be all in me.
5. O my God, I see nothing, I feel nothing, I tast nothing of you. But I am contented to posses you in a man∣ner above the sense of seeing, tasting or feeling, I would not have you but in your self, without my self.
6. The Angells ô Lord honour you in heaven by silence, & mankind on Earth by annihilation, peace, and intire resignation. Remain in me, and let me remain in peace, and lost in you.
7. Neither privations, emptinesse, distractions, insensibilities, tedious∣nes, and oppressions, shal separat me from my God, you come from him, and you unite me to him.
8. O my soule, thou dost much whilst thou thinkst thou dost no∣thing, thou contentest thy God, thou pleasest him by being so, thou expi∣rest
in him, thou loosest thy self for him, and sacrifisest thy self to him; thou art no longer in thy self, but dost passe into him.
9. O the good will and pleasure of my God, how dear art thou to me. Be content with me my God, and I am satisfyed. You will have me to be so.
10. O Pure faith which transfor∣mes my mind into God by blinding it, O pure love which unites my hart unto the hart of my God, by despoyling it of all things, remove, consume, and destroy in me all that is humane, sensible, or naturall.
11. Who are you my God, and who am I, that I should dare to speake before, or behold you, I am but a litle dust, and a pure nothing before you; so you looke vpon me it is enough, I ought to be content with my nothing, and to be nothing.
12. Lord you can do all things, you know all things, and you love me; you know my wants and my miseries; it is enough, I desire no∣thing
but you, I abandon my self to you, do what you will with me, and in me.
1. SUpport your self by the former feellings, renewing them by a simple reguard in God, begining your prayer to annihilat your self before God, intirely abandoning your self to him, to believe you are not idle whilst you do this, thô you neither feel nor know any thing; but be in peace and contented to be nothing in Gods presence. The arme that holds it self without mo∣tion dos it do nothing? You aban∣doning all things, running to, and putting your self continually in God, is it not to act after a divine manner? In a word God would have you to be in the state you are, obey, and remain in peace.
2. Be not one of those souls, who reject all the good thoughts God gives them to remain without action as they call it, and in pure passivenesse: which is an errour and a pure idlenesse; but when you feel your self moved to adore and love God, and to abandon your self to him, receave humbly, and follow simply this impulse, yet without tying your selfe to it, or desire of keeping or augmenting it, and be equally con∣tented to have or loose it, one is not to act as of ones self, but to follow the impression of grace.
3. In fine, make it your employ∣ment, your repose, your satisfaction in prayer to content God. Remain firme there to honour his greatness by the sense of your nothing: and go from it intirely resolved to re∣nounce your self in all things.