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his hand all suffering, and even death itself. And whoever
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does this with his whole heart may be sure that he shall
enter heaven without passing though purgatory, even
though he have committed innumerable sins. So we are
taught by Thauler Blosius, Suso, and others. Wherefore
the sick person should often recite the following prayer,
or have it recited for him.
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unworthy servant offer and resign myself to thee
wholly and unreservedly, for thine everlasting
praise and glory, that thou mayest do in me, both in body
and in soul, all thine adorable will; and I make this
offering in union with that love wherewith thy Son
offered himself to thee while hanging on the cross. And I
profess from my heart my readiness to endure with
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patience, and for the sake of thy love and thy glory, all
the pains and anguish of this my sickness, and even
death itself, and all the evils and the chastisement which
the severity of thy divine justice may lay upon me in time
or in eternity. Wherefore, in thy presence and in presence
of all thy saints, I declare and protest, that were it in my
power to live a thousand years amidst all the pleasures
and delights the heart of man can conceive or desire, I
would nevertheless choose rather for thy love and thy
glory to die at this time, if it be thy holy will. And with
the fullest resignation of myself into thy hands, I say and
repeat a thousand times, with heart and mouth: Not my
will, but thine be done, O most loving Jesus, in me, by

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