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Rh reason of their unbelief. We should love Christ, who has redeemed us from sins, and we cannot recount His good deeds towards us, who, through His lordly might hath redeemed us from errors, and from everlasting deaths hath led us to life. We were unacceptable, and had turned ourselves from Christ, but He sought us so that He Himself came down from His heavenly seat with such great humility, that He became man for our sakes begotten into the world, and lay in swaddling clothes. He that encloseth in His hand all this earth, as almighty God, and He that holdeth the heavens, had no dwellings in the world, nor a place where He might recline His head during His life. And He that hath all things, was poor on our account, in order that He might enrich us with His everlasting riches. And He was judged by unrighteous judges, who will come in clouds at the end of this world to judge all that ever were alive (quick). And He that is the well of life desired water from the woman of Samaria, as the gospel telleth us. And He that feedeth all things suffered hunger while He was in the desert, tempted by the devil, after that He had fasted forty days at one time. And He, to whom the angels minister, ministered Himself to men, and washed His disciples feet with His beauteous (fair) hands. And He, that wrought many miracles with His hands, consented for our sakes, that men should fasten His hands with nails to the cross (rood), and also the soles of His feet. And when He requested to drink, then the miserable Jews put gall to His mouth, out of which came to man the gospel-lore with its life-like preaching. And against Him, that injured no one, did man bear false witness, and He was scourged for our sakes, though guiltless. And He, that raised to life the dead through His lordly might, suffered Himself to hang upon the gallows of the cross of His own will, and thus He suffered death, and after that He was buried, but He arose from death on the third day, and He went up into the heavens unto His holy Father. All this He suffered for our redemption, in order that He might give the life everlasting