“Living without dread in worldly prosperity;

Of ghostly sight the people be so blind,

Drowned in sin they know Me not for their God.”

He reminded them of the great Sacrifice which seemed to have passed from their thoughts.

“My law that I showed, when I for them died,

They forget clean, and shedding of My blood red;

I hanged between two, it cannot be denied;

To get them life, I suffered to be dead;

I healed their feet, with thorns hurt was My head;

I could do no more than I did truly,