Examine diligently thy conscience; so that there be nothing that may breed in thee remorse of conscience, and hinder thy free access.
And, if thou hast time, confess unto God in the secret of thy heart, all the miseries of thy disordered passions.
2. Lament and grieve, that thou art yet so worldly, so unmortified as to thy passions;
So unwatchful over thy outward senses, so often entangled with vain imaginations;
So negligent and cold in prayer, so undevout in celebrating, so dry in receiving;
So quickly distracted, so seldom wholly recollected;
So suddenly moved to anger, so apt to take displeasure against another;
So prone to judge, so severe to reprehend;
*So often purposing much good, and yet performing little.
3. These and other thy defects being confessed, with full resignation, and with thy whole will, offer up thyself a perpetual sacrifice to the honour of my name, on the altar of thy heart, faithfully committing thy body and soul unto me;