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    Needs must the Serpent now his capital bruise

    Expect with mortal paine: say where and when

    Thir fight, what stroke shall bruise the Victors heel [ 385 ].

    <cite></cite>To whom thus Michael. Dream not of thir fight,

    As of a Duel, or the local wounds

    Of head or heel: not therefore joyhe Son

    Manhood to God-head, with more strength to foil

    Thy enemie; nor so is overe [ 390 ]

    Satan, whose fall from Heavn, a deadlier bruise,

    Disabld not to give thee thy deaths wound:

    Which hee, who es thy Saviour, shall recure,

    Not by destroying Satan, but his works

    In thee and in thy Seed: nor  this be, [ 395 ]

    But by fulfilling that which thou didst want,

    Obedieo the Law of God, imposd

    Oie of d.h, and sufferih,

    The penaltie to thy transgression due,

    And due to theirs which out of thine will grow: [ 400 ]

    So onely  high Justice rest appaid.

    The Law of God exact he shall fulfill

    Both by obediend by love, though love

    Alone fulfill the Law; thy punishment

    He shall endure by ing in the Flesh [ 405 ]

    To a reproachful life and cursed death,

    Proclaiming Life to all who shall believe

    In his redemption, and that his obedience

    Imputed bees theirs by Faith, his merits

    To save them, not thir own, though legal works. [ 410 ]

    For this he shall live hated, be blasphemd,

    Seisd on by force, judgd, and to death nd

    A shameful and accurst, naild to the Cross

    By his own Nation, slaine fing Life;

    But to the Cross he hy Enemies, [ 415 ]

    The Law that is against thee, and the sins

    Of all mankinde, with him there crucifid,

    o hurt them more whhtly trust

    In this his satisfa; so he dies,

    But soon revives, Death over him no power [ 420 ]

    Shall long usurp; ere the third dawning light

    Returhe Starres of Morn shall see him rise

    Out of his grave, fresh as the dawning light,

    Thy ransom paid, which Man from death redeems,

    His death for Man, as many as offerd Life [ 425 ]

    not, and the be imbrace

    By Faith not void of workes: this God-like act

    Annuls thy doom, the death thou shouldst have dyd,

    In sin for ever lost from life; this act

    Shall bruise the head of Satan, crush his strength [ 430 ]

    Defeating Sin ah, his two maine armes,

    And fix farr deeper in his head thir stings

    Then t<dfn>?9９ｌiｂ.</dfn>emporal death shall bruise the Victors heel,

    Or theirs whom<var>?</var> he redeems, a death like sleep,

    A gentle wafting to immortal Life. [ 435 ]

    Nor after resurre shall he stay

    Longer oh theaiimes to appeer

    To his Disciples, Men who in his Life

    Still followd him; to them shall leave in charge

    To teach all nations what of him they learnd [ 440 ]

    And his Salvation, them who shall beleeve

    Baptizing in the profluent streame, the signe

    Of washing them from guilt of sin to Life

    Pure, and in mind prepard, if so befall,

    For death, like that which the redeemer dyd. [ 445 ]

    All Nations they shall teach; for from that day

    Not oo the Sons of Abrahams Loines

    Salvation shall be Preacht, but to the Sons

    Of Abrahams Faith wherever through the world;

    So in his seed all Nations shall be blest. [ 450 ]

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