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 of death, He said to His father, "Not my will, hut Thine be done."

Colloquy. — O Sovereign Master, I confess that I am not worthy to he called Thy disciple, because I have not profited by Thy example. May the sorrows and agony of death come upon me for the times that I have said against Thee, " Not Thy will, but mine be done!" Separate, O my Saviour, from my mouth so cursed a word, and favour me with Thy grace to mortify my own will, that I may entirely accomplish Thine. May I henceforth seek not that which is mine, but what is Thine and my neighbours; seeking their profit and Thy glory, world without end! Amen.

" 1. The third point shall be to consider the sins and disorders of the other interior faculties of the soul, which are the imagination and sensitive appetites, with the evil that proceeds from them.

i. I will consider that my imaginative faculty is like a hall painted with many images and figures; some foul, some profane, and others ridiculous, monstrous and deformed, entertaining itself in painting them, taking pleasure in beholding them, soliciting the understanding to gaze upon them, and oftentimes drawing it after it to cogitate upon them; whence originally spring many sins, which they call " delectatio morosa," a continuing or " lingering delight," in matter of carnality, revenge, ambition and avarice, delighting myself with the imagination of these things as if they were present.

ii. Then will I consider how my appetitive faculties are like a rough, troubled sea, combated with eleven waves of passions encountering one with another; that is to say,