thing: my body, which thou hast formed of clay; my understanding, my memory, my heart, and my will, with all the strength and capacity of those faculties, all the actions and affections, thoughts and desires, which ever shall, or can proceed from them, to thee I offer and dedicate them all.
Accept, O Lord God, all my senses, with their powers, functions, and uses; my eyes, with all their looks; my hearing, smell, taste, and touch; all my appetites, with all their operations; lastly, all my arteries, veins, limbs, and bones of my body, with all their motions, actions, and faculties.
All these I offer, consecrate, devote, and dedicate to thee for ever. Vouchsafe to accept this sacrifice of my service for an odour of sweetness.
ANOTHER OBLATION TO GOD.
From the same Bourgoine.
In which man, considering the titles of God which have reference to the state and condition of grace, offers and dedicates himself entirely to him as far as regards his spiritual state of life through grace.
O most high, powerful, and merciful God, adorable and incomprehensible Trinity! I offer, dedicate, and consecrate to thee my soul, with all its powers and faculties, all the capacity of my will to love thee, and of my intellect to know thee, to my own abasement and thy greater glory.
I offer and give to thee my mind’s whole faculty of obedience, to co-operate with thy divine grace, for the fulfilment of all thy will. Lord, all my desire is before thee, and my groaning is not hid from thee. Accept all that my will can possibly desire for thy praise, pleasure, and service.
Finally, I offer and give to thee all my affections, thoughts, words, and works, both done and to be done, my life, my time, my eternity, all my existence in nature and in grace; and lastly, myself, as the most worthless and unworthy slave of thy almighty power and goodness, who am entirely dependent on thy mercy; and in virtue of this gift, by thy grace never to be revoked, I intend and desire all that is mine to be for ever thine.
