be a soul who believes this, O my Jesus, and yet loves Thee not? He hath loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood.1 Behold, O men, how far the love of Jesus for us has carried him, in order to cleanse us from the filthiness of our sins. He has even shed every drop of his blood that he might prepare for us in this his own blood a bath of salvation: “He offers his own blood,” says a learned writer, “speaking better than the blood of Abel: for that cried for justice; the blood of Christ