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Book 3.  Wondring; but soon th’ Almighty thus repy'd: O thou in Heav’n and Earth the only peace Found out for mankind under wrauth, O thou My ole complacence! well thou know’t how dear, To me are all my works, nor Man the leat Though lat created, that for him I pare Thee from my boom and right hand, to ave, 280 By looing thee a while, the whole Race lot. Thou therefore whom thou only cant redeeme, Thir Nature alo to thy Nature joyne; And be thy elf Man among men on Earth, Made fleh, when time hall be, of Virgin eed, By wondrous birth: Be thou in Adams room The Head of all mankind, though Adams Son. As in him perih all men, o in thee As from a econd root hall be retor'd, As many as are retor'd, without thee none. 290 His crime makes guiltie all his Sons, thy merit Imputed hall abolve them who renounce Thir own both righteous and unrighteous deeds, And live in thee tranplanted, and from thee Receive new life. So Man, as is mot jut, Shall atisfie for Man, be judg'd and die, And dying rie, and riing with him raie His Brethren, ranomd with his own dear life. So Heav’nly love hal outdoo Hellih hate, Giving to death, and dying to redeeme, 300 So dearly to redeem what Hellih hate, So eaily detroy'd, and till detroyes In thoe who, when they may, accept not grace. Nor halt thou by decending to aume Mans Nature, les'n or degrade thine owne.