will breake out first into affections of humilitie, of reuerence, and of mine owne confusion: sometymes saying with S. Peeter; Departe from mee, o Lord, and goe forth from this wretched litle ship, for I am a great sinner. And sometymes with S.
Elizabeth I will say vnto him: whence is it to mee, that my God, and my Lord commeth to visite mee? O eternall God vvhat is man that the ••art mindefull of him? Or the sonne of man that thou visitest him? Thou madest him lesse then the angells by beeing clothed vvith vile fleshe: and com∣mest thou from heauen accompanied vvith angells to harbour thyselfe vvithin him? O our Lord, and God hovv admirable is thy name thoroughout all the earthe, seeing thou hast made it thy Habitation as vvell as heauen.
2.
Then will I breake out into affections of praise and thankes-giuing, vsing some canticles of the churche. Sometyme I will say as the Seraphins, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God of hostes, that hath humbled himselfe to dwell in this smoky, cloudie temple of my soule. Sometymes, I will crie out with the He∣brewe children that accompanied Christe on Palme∣sunday, saying:
O king of Israel and Sauiour of the worlde, blessed bee hee that that hath come from on high to visit mee, I not knowing how to deserue it.
Other sometymes with the three youthes that were in the furnace in Babilon, I will inuite all crea∣tures to praise our Lord, for this fauour that hee hath donne mee,
3. Or in imitation of this canticle, I will make a∣nother, inuiting to the same ende the nine quires of angells, and the quires of the patriarkes and prophets, of the apostles, and euangelistes: of the martirs, and doctors: bishops, and confessours: preistes, and le∣uites: virgins, and widowes;
and all the Sainctes in heauen in this forme: May thy Angells, Archangells, and Principallities blesse thee, o Lord; may they praise,