QUOTE : And now without redemption all mankind<br />Must have been lost, adjudged to death and hell<br />By doom severe, had not the Son of God,<br />In whom the fullness dwells of love divine,<br />His dearest mediation thus renewed.<br />'Father, Thy word is passed, man shall find grace;<br />And shall grace not find means, that finds her way,<br />The speediest of Thy winged messengers,<br />To visit all Thy creatures, and to all<br />Comes unprevented, unimplored, unsought,<br />Happy for man, so coming; he her aid<br />Can never seek, once dead in sins and lost;<br />Atonement for himself or offering meet,<br />Indebted and undone, hath none to bring:<br />Behold Me then, Me for him, life for life<br />I offer, on Me let Thine anger fall;<br />Account Me man; I for his sake will leave<br />Thy bosom, and this glory next to Thee<br />Freely put off, and for him lastly die<br />Well pleased, on Me let death wreak all his rage;<br />Under his gloomy power I shall not long<br />Lie vanquished; Thou hast given Me to possess<br />Life in Myself forever, by Thee I live,<br />Though now to death I yield, and am his due<br />All that of Me can die, yet that debt paid,<br />Thou wilt not leave Me in the loathsome grave<br />His prey, nor suffer My unspotted soul<br />Forever with corruption there to dwell;<br />But I shall rise victorious, and subdue<br />My vanquisher, spoiled of his vaunted spoil;<br />Death his death's wound shall then receive, and stoop<br />Inglorious, of his mortal sting disarmed.