If therefore thou desirest to be my disciple, offer up thyself to me with all thy affections.
Chap. IX.
That we must offer ourselves,
and all that is ours, to God,
and pray for all.
The Voice of the Disciple.
1. Lord, all things are thine that are in heaven and earth.
I desire to offer up myself to thee as a voluntary oblation, and to remain for ever thine.
Lord, in the sincerity of my heart, I offer myself to thee this day, to be thy servant evermore, to serve thee, and to become a sacrifice of perpetual praise to thee.
Receive me with this sacred oblation of thy precious body, which I offer to thee this day in the presence of thy angels invisibly standing by, that it may be for mine and all the people's salvation.
2. Lord, I offer to thee all my sins and offences, which I have committed in thy sight and that of thy holy angels, from the day that I was first capable of sin until this hour, upon thy propitiatory altar, that thou mayest burn and consume them all with the fire of thy charity, and mayest remove all the stains of my sins, and cleanse my conscience from all offences, and restore to me thy grace, which I have lost by sin, by fully pardoning me all, and mercifully receiving me to the kiss of peace.