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 I leave His friendship. I will always have Him with me till He carry me to the house of my mother, which is the celestial Jerusalem, where I may enjoy Him with perfect security.

2. Then, like David, in the presence of this our Lord I will pour forth my prayer, and set before Him all my necessities and miseries, recounting them as if He knew them not, because He delights to hear them, beseeching Him to do His offices in remedying them, seeing this was the end of His coming; and that the coming of so great a prince should not be in vain. And therefore I may say to Him,

Colloquy. — I, O Lord, am sick of grievous infirmities and passions; pride, wrath, sensuality and covetousness have prostrated me. Thou art the omnipotent physician, and hast come to my soul to cure me; cure me according to Thy power, and leave me whole. Say in this entrance as Thou saidst entering into the house of Zaccheus, " Hodie salus huic domui facta est," " This day is salvation come to this house." And because Thy saying is doing, it shall be as Thou saidst. I am likewise full of ignorances and errors in the darkness and obscurity of death. Thou art my master, my light, and my guide; teach me, illuminate me, and guide me, for this was the end of Thy coming!

In these and other like petitions I will spend another while, wrestling like Jacob with this angel of the great counsel, with the wrestling of prayers, beseeching Him not to depart without pouring out upon me His most abundant benediction.

1. Finally, I am to make some offers to this our Lord in thankfulness for the favour He has done me, inviting Him,