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.

PRAYER.

YOu have promised me (O my God) by your Prophet, to engrave your love in the midst of my heart, and to im∣print it in the center of my soule: I summon you in order to your promise, for I offer unto you my heart opened, and commit into your hands my soule and spi∣rit, to receive of you the motions of grace, and the impressions of your law: But what is this law which you give me, but the i∣mitation of your life, and of the vertues which you have been pleased to practise on earth? For you had no need , my Lord, of this great poverty which I

discern in your birth, of the pa∣tience which you shew in your torments, of the obedience which sets you on the Crosse, of meeknesse in the midst of your enemies, nor of the humi∣lity and contempt of the world which is manifested in all your life: But you have subjected your selfe unto all this, not on∣ly for my salvation, but also to teach me both by words and actions, the vertues which you affect, the way which I am to follow to obtain salvation, and the life which I ought to lead, to become the most acceptable to you. In this sort, your life and vertues, O Jesus, are the square of my actions, and the rules which I am to follow.

Grant me then the grace, that I may know them to esteeme them, that I esteem them to love them, and that I love them to practise them, in such sort as you require of me: For I am well assured that I shall have no share in your glory, if I doe not imi∣tate your vertues, and shall not partake of your triumphs, if I beare not a part in your com∣bats.