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 ration and praise, which I now offer to thy divine Majesty. This Sacred Heart, this heart only, can love, honour, and glorify thee as thou deservest to he loved, honoured, and glorified. ''Amen. ''

This Association is an assembly or agreement of some pious and virtuous people, who, in order to honour the Sacred Heart, and to make some atonement to it, agree among themselves to perform some particular practice of devotion each Friday of the month.

2. The association under our present consideration, is one of the many devotions practised with great advantage in honour of the Sacred Heart, it being experimentally certain that God Almighty heaps his distinguished favours on such as are thus concerned to honour him.

3. The number of devout persons composing this association maybe more or less, as they shall judge convenient.