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Seventhly: I acknowledge and profess that I could not
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hope to attain heaven by my own merits; wherefore I put
not my trust in them, but only in the merits and passion
of thy beloved Son, and in the patronage and intercession
of thy Saints… And in these I so firmly place my trust,
that I cannot even conceive that I can perish
everlastingly, yea, though I had offended thee a thousand
times more than I have done; for I know that thy mercy is
infinitely above my sins, and that the passion of thine
only Son is of immeasureably greater weight in the
balance of thy justice.

Eighthly: I wholly commit and resign to thy most holy
will myself, and all that I am, or have, or can do,
deliberately choosing and imploring of thee that that will
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may be most fully and entirely done in me, by me, and in
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all that concerns me. I do not desire to live one hour
longer than it pleases thee. I do not desire to depart hence
by this or that kind of death or sickness, but purely and
alone by that which thou shalt appoint for me. Yea, were
I now free to live on a thousand years amidst all
imaginable delights, I would rather choose to die this
moment, were it thy will, than to live one single moment
longer than thou willest.

Ninthly: I love thee, O my God and my Love, and I
desire to love thee forever; for by reason of thy sovereign
perfection and magnificence thou art most worthy of my
love; and I would I could love thee a thousand-fold more
than I do. Had I the capacity of the hearts of all men and
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