thou wilt reconcile me to thy dear Son, in calling His worthy goodness for me, unworthy sinner, that for the love of thee He will pardon and forgive me my sins, and bring me into His glory.
He ought afterward, if he may, call on the holy Angels, in saying:
Ye Spirits of Heaven, Angels much glorious, I beseech you that ye will be assistant[1] with me that now beginneth to depart, and that ye deliver me mightily from the awaits and fallacies of mine adversaries; and that it please you to receive my soul into your company. The principal, my leader and my good angel, which by our Lord art deputed to be my warden and keeper, I pray and require thee that thou now aid and help me.
And after he ought to require the apostles, the martyrs, the confessors and the virgins, and in especial all the saints that he most loved ever.
After all these things he ought to say three times, if he may, these words that follow; which is said to be made and composed by Saint Austin:
The Peace of our Lord Jesu Christ; the virtue of His holy passion; the sign of the holy cross; the entireness of the humility of the Virgin Mary; the blessing of all the saints; the keeping of the angels; and the suffrages of all the chosen of God; be between me and all
- ↑ i.e. present.
