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WEre I unwilling (O be∣nigne Mother of my soul) yet the affection, which you beare me, obligeth me to love you. I am content, nay I desire it with my whole heart; but I am unable to effect it with∣out a favour from heaven: But as it is a great mercy, that you vouchsafe to love, and co-operate to my salvation;
so is it a great grace, that I may be able to love you, and live in your service. I beg then this favour of you (O Virgin, Mo∣ther of my soule) and I beseech you to change my heart, that from henceforward I may bee yours, and entirely dedicated to your service. Put me in a state of perpetuall servitude towards you, establish me in the true love of Jesus, and procure that I may both live and die, perse∣vering in that love and service which I owe you. I remit my life (O holy Virgin) into your hands; I remit into your hands the houre of my death, because I will be wholly yours, and depend on you in such sort as my God and my Iesus desires
it of me. Be pleased then (O Mother of mercy!) to receive me into your protection, and to looke on mee as the object of your goodnesse, and the subject of your commiseration. Accept of my good will, fortifie my weaknesse, and give mee the grace to put in practice the good purposes which God hath suggested to me by your inter∣cession, and no longer permit that I act any thing, which may annihilate in my soule the ef∣fects of grace: but obtaine for me a capacity of receiving in my heart such effects of the Crosse, as my Iesus shall infuse into it, and fidelity to co-ope∣rate therewith in such sort, as my God and my Iesus requires of me.