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to that celestial banquet Thou hast prepared for the blessed in heaven. O God, grant me the grace so eagerly to long after this eternal banquet, that the desire of hereafter enjoying it may make me despise all the goods and pleasures of this life, and labor incessantly to prepare myself, till I am happily admitted amongst Thy guests. There is one resolution which I here make in Thy presence, viz.: to renounce all whatsoever my irregular and corrupt affections incline me to; for they often press me to forsake the way of Thy com-