May Fervently Persevere in Thy Service to the

Into thy hands, O Lord, I commend my whole being.

O Jesus, Son of David, have mercy upon me. Receive, O Lord, in thy great mercy, the poor remains of my life. I am heartily sorry for the years I have misspent, they have van- ished as a shadow, they have passed away without fruit ; but, as I cannot recall them, suffer me at least to think of them in the bit- terness of my soul. Suffer me no longer to yield to my accustomed failings. Let the ardour with which I pursued a fife of sin bo henceforth more diligently applied to thy service, that where sin hath abounded, thy grace may still more abound. Remember, O Lord Jesus ! that it is not thy desire to lose any of those whom thy Father hath given thee ; but rather to have mercy always and to spare — to destroy no one, but to save all, i 2 PRAYERS because thy Father hath sent thee into the world, not to judge the world, but to grant us life through thee. May, therefore, O Lord, thy boundless merits plead for me now, and at my last moments, that I may ob- tain the full remission of my sins ; that I may truly know thee ; that I may ever love thee ; that I may tend to thee incessantly ; and at length arrive to the eternal enjoyment of thee, who, with the Father and the Holy Ghost, liveth and reigneth one God, world without end. Amen