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YOu have been chosen (ô Mo∣ther of grace and mercy!) to be the repairer of the world, and to co-operate in a most peculiar manner to the salvation of all mankind. You did when you gave your Sonne Christ Jesus to be delivered up to the death of the Crosse, and you do it when, holding him dead between your armes, you offer him to the di∣vine Justice, as a Victime and Sacrifice of propitiation, which
satisfies God for the sinnes of the world: And in this respect you are our Repairer; for Jesus who is the Saviour of men is yours, he is your Sonne, and you are his Mother. And in this quality, you have right to his life, his preservation, and all his condition?. Neverthelesse, (O Mother of our Soules) you consent to his death, you incou∣rage him to torments, you con∣duct him to the Crosse, and like another Abraham you sacrifice in will and affection your only Sonne, and you sacrifice him for my sinnes, so great is your cha∣rity and love towards me. But what can I doe in recognition of so sublime a benefit? Where∣in am I able to acknowledge,
(O benigne Virgin) so ardent a Charity? At least since you give your Sonne for me, procure that I may be your slave, and since you resigne him to efface the sinnes of the world, and that hee may merit for us such graces, as are necessary for our salvation, be pleased to mediate, that I may be faithfull to all the graces, which he hath purcha∣sed for me by his death, and that I may live no longer, but for his honour and yours, as you give him to the Crosse and de∣liver him up to death for me.