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MOst hartie thankes be giuen vnto thée, O tender sauiour of our soules, who being the im∣maculate and vnspotted Lambe of God the father, wast well content to be charged with our offences,
that we might taste the sweete fruites of thine innocencie, and didst most willinglie offer vp thy bodie an oblation vnto thy father, after that definitiue sentence, pro∣nounced in the Consistorie, had passed against thée in iudgement, that we the children of wrath, out∣casts from the Common wealth of Israell, strangers from the coue∣nant, & enimies vnto God, might by the diuine vertue of thy death and passion, be reconciled, and es∣cape the penaltie of the lawe, to the curse whereof sinne had made vs subiect, but thou by thy sufferings hast set vs at libertie, and deliuered vs from danger of damnation.
We cannot imagine how to extoll thy mercie sufficientlie, in taking vpon thée a worke of such difficul∣tie, euen the appeasing of thy fa∣thers wrath kindled against vs, in whome the glorious image of our Creator was shamefullie defaced. Thy bowels of compassion, and tender loue, excéede all comparison.
For the manifold torments which thou in thy mortall bodie didst suf∣fer, in the presence of most vniust Iudges, are assured warrants of thy tendernes ouer vs: whome to set frée from punishment, thou ga∣uest thine owne déere and most swéete soule to be a satisfactorie ob∣lation, vpon the which all our filth of sinne might be cast, and so cease, as not imputable vnto vs anie more, thereby reconciling vs vnto thy father, and sealing the same at∣tonement with thy pretious heart bloud. To thée therefore be honour and praise for euermore,