25. The blood of Jesus Christ is known on earth as having cleansed our persons. As it is written, " Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood." (Rev. 1:5.) Observe, it is us, that is, our persons here; and a portion so known to the soul as for it to be its song, not on the housetop only, but (as with John here) its theme to tell over all the world, and to every age, till the redemption of the purchased possession come. But if it be sung through time by the church on earth-