Of the imitation of Christ : four books . life, and to be en-deavouring always after a farther progress inholiness. Then with full resignation and with thy wholewill, do thou, to the honour of my name, offer upthyself a perpetual whole burnt offering on thealtar of thy heart, faithfully committing thy bodyand soul unto me. And then thou mayest be accounted worthy todraw near to celebrate this eucharistical sacrificeunto God, and to receive profitably the sacramentof my body and blood. 4. For man hath no oblation more worthy, nor IMITATION OF CHRIST. 369 any means greater for the destroying of
Of the imitation of Christ : four books . life, and to be en-deavouring always after a farther progress inholiness. Then with full resignation and with thy wholewill, do thou, to the honour of my name, offer upthyself a perpetual whole burnt offering on thealtar of thy heart, faithfully committing thy bodyand soul unto me. And then thou mayest be accounted worthy todraw near to celebrate this eucharistical sacrificeunto God, and to receive profitably the sacramentof my body and blood. 4. For man hath no oblation more worthy, nor IMITATION OF CHRIST. 369 any means greater for the destroying of sin, thanto offer himself unto God purely and wholly, inthe holy communion of the body and blood ofChrist. And when a man shall have done what lieth inhim, and shall be truly penitent, how often soeverhe shall come to me for pardon and grace, As Ilive, saith the Lord, who will not the death of asinner, but rather that he be converted and live,^I will not remember his sins any more, but theyshall all be forgiven him. Ezek. xviii. 22, r. I!
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