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makest me now to understand my folly and my great duty to love Thee. I love Thee, my Jesus, with all my soul, and I desire to love Thee more. Increase this desire and this love. Inspire me with love for Thee, Thou Who art infinitely lovely, Who hast done everything to make me love Thee, and Who desirest my love so much. " If Thou wilt, Thou canst make me clean." (S. Matt. viii. 2.) Ah, my dear Redeemer, purge my heart from every impure affection which may prevent me from loving Thee as I ought. I have not the power to make my heart burn with love towards Thee, and to love no other than Thee; it must be through the strength of Thy grace which can do all that it wishes to do. Separate me from all things, drive away from my soul every affection that is not Thine, and make me wholly Thine. I grieve beyond every evil, because of having so often offended Thee as I have done. I resolve to consecrate the life that remains to me entirely to Thy holy love; but it is Thou Who must enable me to do it. Enable me through that Blood which Thou didst shed for me with so much grief and so much love. Let it be to the glory of Thy power to make my heart, which was once filled with earthly affections, now to be consumed with love towards Thee, O Thou Infinite Good.