“Most holy and eternal God, Lord and Sovereign of all the creatures, I humbly present to your Divine Majesty myself, my soul and body, my thoughts and my words, my actions and intentions, my passions and my sufferings, to be disposed by you to your glory; to be blessed by your providence; to be guided by your counsel; to be sanctified by your Spirit; and afterwards that my body and soul may be received into glory: for nothing can perish which is under your custody; and the enemy of souls cannot devour what is your portion, nor take it out of your hands. This day, O Lord, and all the days of my life, I dedicate to your honour, and the actions of my calling to the uses of grace, and the religion of all my days to be united to the merits and intercession of my holy Saviour Jesus, that in him and for him I may be pardoned and accepted. Amen.
Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667), The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living (Philadelphia: J.W. Bradley, 1860) 70.