44                           HER  RELI(;i0US   EXERCISES.

perseverance in faith. Monday, to St. Ignatius, founder
of the holy Society of Jesus, and glorious St. Teresa ;
obedience to her spirituall superiours. Tuesday, to her
Angell Guardian; (in honour of whome allso shee said
every day the little office j purity of soul and body. Wed¬
nesday, to St. Fr: Xaverius, and St. Monica; zeal of
souls, especially her children. Thursday, to St. John
Baptist, and St. Dorothy; devotion to the blessed Sacra¬
ment. Fryday, to St. Peter, and St. Mary Magdalen; a
desire to suffer for Christ. Saturday, to St. Joseph and
his Virgin Spouse ; (to whom likewise shee said every
day the office of her conception) humility. The reason
why shee undertook this virtuous exercise was, that her
naturall deficiency might be suppli'd by a holy change of
dayly devotions : experience teaching that nothing is more
pleasing or prevalent than novelty in the state of corrupt
nature. For tho' God, by whome we are created to serve
and honom: in this life that we may enjoy him in the next,
be no changling but allways the same, and alike to be
serv'd without vicissitude on his part, and interruption or
remissness on ours ; notwithstanding we are so desperate¬
ly gone in a lethergy of dullness, inclining to an absolute
decay, that without new fomentation the fervour of our
devotion will be in time quench'd, or suffer a notable im¬
peachment in the primary perfection.