His Overflowing Love

Then came to my mind, that God hath made waters plenteous in earth to our service, and to our bodily ease, for tender love that he hath to us.  But yet liketh him better, that we take full holsomely his blessed blood to wash us from sin, for there is no liquor that is made that liketh him so well to give us: for it is most plenteous, as it is most precious, and that, by the vertue of the blessed Godhead; and it is our own kind, and blessedfully overfloweth us by the vertue of his precious love.  The dear worthy blood of our Lord Jesu Christ, also verily as it is most precious, as verily it is most plenteous.  Behold and see the vertue of this precious plenty of his dear worthy blood.  It descended down into hell, and brake her bonds, and delivered them all that were there which belongeth to the court of heaven.  The precious plenty of his dear worthy blood overfloweth all earth, and is ready to wash all creatures of sin which be of good-will, have been, or shall be.  The previous plenty of his dear worthy blood ascendeth up into heaven in the blessed body of our Lord Jesus Christ: and there is in him bleeding, praying for us to the Father, and is and shall be as long as us needeth.  And evermore it floweth in all heaven.

– from “The Fourth Revelation,” from Revelations of Divine Love (c. 1390–1420), by Julian of Norwich