What shall
wretched man do? who shall deliver him from the body of his death, but
only Thy Grace, through Jesus Christ our Lord, whom Thou hast begotten
co-eternal, and formedst in the beginning of Thy ways, in whom the
prince of this world found nothing worthy of death, yet killed he Him;
and the handwriting, which was contrary to us, was blotted out? This
those writings contain not. Those pages present not the image of
this piety, the tears of confession, Thy sacrifice, a troubled spirit,
a broken and a contrite heart, the salvation of the people, the Bridal
City, the earnest of the Holy Ghost, the Cup of our Redemption. No man
sings there, Shall not my soul be submitted unto God? for of Him
cometh my salvation. For He is my God and my salvation, my guardian, I
shall no more be moved. No one there hears Him call, Come unto Me, all
ye that labour. They scorn to learn of Him, because He is meek and
lowly in heart; for these things hast Thou hid from the wise and
prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. For it is one thing,
from the mountain's shaggy top to see the land of peace, and to find
no way thither; and in vain to essay through ways unpassable,
opposed and beset by fugitives and deserters, under their captain
the lion and the dragon: and another to keep on the way that leads
thither, guarded by the host of the heavenly General; where they spoil
not who have deserted the heavenly army; for they avoid it, as very
torment.
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