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4. His mercy was abundant; he took upon him all the miseries and debts of the world, and he made satisfaction for them all; he acted our redemption immediately in his own person, he would not intrust it to Angels, but he would come himself and suffer; nor would he give a low and base price for our souls, he saw the misery was great, and his mercy should be more great; he would buy us with so great a ransom, as that he might over-buy us, and none might out-bid him in the market of our souls; O we under-bid, and under-value the mercy of God, who over-valued us; we will not sell all to buy him, but he sold all he had, and himself too to buy us; indeed if he had not ⟨p. 403⟩done it, we had been damned; and to save our souls, he cared not what he did or suffered. O the mercy of Christ!

4. His mercy was abundant; he took upon him all the miseries and debts of the world, and he made satisfaction for them all; he acted our redemption immediately in his own person, he would not intrust it to Angels, but he would come himself and suffer; nor would he give a low and base price for our souls, he saw the misery was great, and his mercy should be more great; he would buy us with so great a ransome, as that he might over-buy us, and none might out-bid him in the market of our souls; O we under-bid, and under-value the mercy of God, who over-valued us; we will not sell all to buy him, but he sold all he had, and himself too to buy us; indeed if he had not ⟨p. 403⟩done it, we had been damned; and to save our souls, he cared not what he did or suffered. O the mercy of Christ!

5. His meekness was passing great; in all the process of his passion, he showed not the least passion of wrath or anger; he suffered himself gently and quietly to be carried like a sheep to the Butchery, and as a Lamb before shearer is dumb, so opened he not his mouth: a Lamb is a most meek and innocent creature,