The Good Shepherd

"I would've been here sooner," explained Christian, "but— wretched man that I am!—I slept in the arbor that stands on the hillside! No, besides that, I would've been here much sooner if I hadn't lost my Evidence. I traveled without it to the top of the hill, and then feeling for it and not finding it, I was forced to go back with a sorrowful heart to where I slept. I recovered it, and now I'm here."

“Now this willingness of his, on his part, Christ shews by two things. First, By that great journey he took from heaven to earth, and that to no other purpose but to save sinners. For this (says he) did I come down from heaven. Great actions of one who is wise, must answerably have great ends; now this was the greatest thing that ever was done, that the Son of God should come from heaven.”

“And he said: “The Lord roars from Zion and utters his voice from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the top of Carmel withers.”

“In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.”

“For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.”