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CHAPTER XXIII.
AN OFFERING OF PRAISE AND THANKSGIVING MADE BY
ME, SISTER MARY OF JESUS, THE LEAST OF THE MOR
TALS, TO THE LORD AND TO HIS MOST HOLY MOTHER,
FOR HAVING BEEN CHOSEN TO WRITE THIS HEAVENLY
HISTORY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE QUEEN AND
MISTRESS OF HEAVEN.
786. I confess Thee, God eternal, Lord of heaven,
earth, Father, Son and Holy Ghost, the one and true God,
one substance and majesty in the Trinity of Persons;
since, not having received aught from anybody that Thou
shouldst repay him (Rom. 11, 35), solely through thy
ineffable condescension and clemency, Thou revealest
thy mysteries and sacraments to thy little ones (Matth.
11, 25) ;
and since Thou dost it in immense bounty and
infinite wisdom, pleasing Thyself and doing all things
aright. In thy works Thou magnifiest thy holy name,
exaltest thy Omnipotence, showest thy greatness, scatterest
thy mercies and establishest thy glory, which is
due to Thee as the holy, the wise, the powerful, the kind,
the liberal God, the sole beginning and Author of all that
is good. None is so holy as Thou, none so powerful, none
so exalted, who raisest the poor from the dust and from
nothingness, and enrichest the needy (Ps. 112, 7). Thine
are, O Most high God, the ends and the poles of the
earth; Thou givest life and givest death; Thou hum
blest and castest down to the abyss the proud; Thou
raisest up the humble according to thy pleasure; Thou
enrichest and impoverishest, in order that in thy pres-
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