Say Heavnly Powers, where shall we find such love,
Which of ye will be mortal to redeem
Mans mortal crime, and just th unjust to save, [ 215 ]
Dwels in all Heaven charitie so deare?
He askd, but all the Heavnly Quire stood mute,
And silence was in Heavn: on mans behalf
Patron or Intercessor none appeerd,
Much less that durst upon his own head draw [ 220 ]
The deadly forfeiture, and ransom set.
And now without redemption all mankind
Must have bin lost, adjudgd to Death and Hell
By doom severe, had not the Son of God,
In whom the fulness dwells of love divine, [ 225 ]
His dearest mediation thus renewd.
Father, thy word is past, man shall find grace;
And shall graot find means, that finds her way,
The speediest of thy winged messengers,
To visit all thy creatures, and to all [ 230 ]
es ued, unimplord, unsought,
Happie for man, so ing; he her aide
ever seek, once dead in sins and lost;
Atto for himself or meet,
Ied and undon, hath : [ 235 ]
Behold mee then, mee for him, life for life
I offer, o thine anger fall;
At mee man; I for his sake will leave
Thy bosom, and this glorie o thee
Freely put off, and for him lastly dye [ 240 ]
Well pleasd, o Death wreck all his rage;
Under his gloomie power I shall not long
Lie vanquisht; thou hast givo possess
Life in my self for ever, by thee I live,
Though now to Death I yield, and am his due [ 245 ]
All that of me die, yet that debt paid,
Thou wilt not leave me in the loathsom grave
His prey, nor suffer my unspotted Soule
For ever with corruptioo dwell;
But I shall rise Victorious, and subdue [ 250 ]
My Vanquisher, spoild of his vanted spoile;
Death his deaths wound shall then receive, and stoop
Inglorious, of his mortal sting disarmd.