Monthly preparations for the Holy Communion by R.B

Christ speaks] And now my heart begins to break, my love can keep no longer in; how causelessly doth this wretch torment his heart! he knows not who I am: I must reveal my self. Sinner, I love thee; I say thou shalt not die: Come, feel my heart and pulse how they beat, and tell how strong my love within doth act them; Dost thou not fee I have left my Throne, and am come down to the Bar where thou standest condemned? But why dost thou weep? Come, let me wipe thine eyes, and bind up thy bleeding and despairing heart: I tell thee thou shalt not die: If Heaven will have blood, it shall have mine, so it will but spare thine. Sinner, if thou knewest who I am, thou ⟨p. 95⟩wouldest not doubt one tittle: I tell thee I am his Son, his only Son, that but now condemned thee: I know he is just, and justice must be satisfied. But do not thou fear, if one of us must die, it shall be I: I will pour out my blood a sacrifice for sin, and appease his wrath, and make you friends again. Ye innumerable company of Angels, (yet servants at my Father will) why do ye rejoice to see my prisoner sent to Hell? this cursed soul over whom in glory you do now triumph, I do resolve to die for, and to buy her to my self a Spouse, and to make her blessed with your selves, and give her a Princes's place on a Throne that is by my self.

Christ speaks] And now my heart begins to break, my love can keep no longer in; how causlesly doth this wretch torment his heart! he knows not who I am: I must reveal my self. Sinner, I love thee; I say thou shalt not die: Come, feel my heart and pulse how they beat, and tell how strong my love within doth act them; Dost thou not fee I have left my Throne, and am come down to the Bar where thou standest condemned? But why dost thou weep? Come, let me wipe thine eyes, and bind up thy bleeding and despairing heart: I tell thee thou shalt not die: If Heaven will have blood, it shall have mine, so it will but spare thine. Sinner, if thou knewest who I am, thou ⟨p. 95⟩wouldest not doubt one tittle: I tell thee I am his Son, his only Son, that but now condemned thee: I know he is just, and justice must be satisfied. But do not thou fear, if one of us must die, it shall be I: I will pour out my blood a sacrifice for sin, and appease his wrath, and make you friends again. Ye innumerable company of Angels, (yet servants at my Father will) why do ye rejoyce to see my prisoner sent to Hell? this cursed soul over whom in glory you do now triumph, I do resolve to die for, and to buy her to my self a Spouse, and to make her blessed with your selves, and give her a Princes's place on a Throne that is by my self.