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THE
DEVOTION
TO THE
SACRED HEART OF JESUS.
PART THE FIRST.
CHAP. I.
Of the Nature of the Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ.
To satisfy the enlightened reader on this important point of our work, it will he necessary to begin by making two essential observations.
1. An object, which, considered precisely in itself, is not worthy of certain honours, may, by an intimate union with another object, to which they are due, become entitled to them. Thus the sacred humanity of Jesus Christ, as a created object, is not worthy of the adoration of Latria, the supreme worship. but becomes worthy of it by its
