PRAYER.
O Amiable Iesus, you have created me to love you, and have loved me to oblige me
Devout entertainments of a Christian soule. Composed in French by the R.F. I.H. Quarre, P. of the Oratory of Jesus, and D.D. Translated in English by J.M. of W. Prisoner in the Tower of London.
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- Title
- Devout entertainments of a Christian soule. Composed in French by the R.F. I.H. Quarre, P. of the Oratory of Jesus, and D.D. Translated in English by J.M. of W. Prisoner in the Tower of London.
- Author
- Quarré, Jean-Hugues, 1580-1656.
- Publication
- Printed at Paris,
- Anno Domini MDC XLVII. [1648]
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- Subject terms
- God -- Love -- Early works to 1800.
- God -- Worship and love -- Early works to 1800.
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"Devout entertainments of a Christian soule. Composed in French by the R.F. I.H. Quarre, P. of the Oratory of Jesus, and D.D. Translated in English by J.M. of W. Prisoner in the Tower of London." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/B04963.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2024.
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to your love, nay, all that you have done and suffered, was but to draw me to you, and to in∣gage me in your service. I ren∣der you thanks with my whole heart, and I beseech you to give me the grace that I may love you above all things, and love nothing but your selfe in all things. Be pleased to annihi∣late in me, whatsoever is oppo∣site to your love, consume in my heart selfe-love, and all af∣fections to creatures, to the end I may unite my selfe to you, and live wholly for you. I know very well that my crimes and offences have rendred me un∣worthy of this grace; But (O God of love and goodnesse!) you have suffered death on the
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Crosse, to obtaine for us this grace, and to attract us to your love. Fix then if you please, (O benigne Iesus) fix I say your love in my heart, and your feare in my soule, and grant that I may love you with all my pow∣er, and with all my forces in or∣der to your command.