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Rh do thou offer up thyself a perpetual whole burnt offering on the altar of thy heart, faithfully committing unto Me thy body and soul.

And then thou mayest be accounted worthy to draw near to celebrate this eucharistic sacrifice, and to receive profitably the sacrament of My body and blood.

4. For man hath no oblation more worthy, nor any means greater for the destroying of sin, than to offer himself unto God purely and wholly, in the holy communion of the body and blood of Christ.

And when a man shall have done what lieth in him, and shall be truly penitent, how often soever he shall come to Me for pardon and grace, "As I live," saith the Lord, "who will not the death of a sinner, but rather that he be converted and live, I will not remember his sins any more, but they shall all be forgiven him."