THE

MESSIAH;

OR THE

REDEMPTION OF MAN:

A POEM.

THE

MESSIAH;

OR THE

REDEMPTION OF MAN :

A POEM.

IN THIRTEEN BOOKS.

BY EDWARD STRANGWAYES.

By His knowledge shall My righteous servant justify many; for He shall
bear their iniquities. Isaiah liii. 11.-We are justified freely by His
grace, through the redemption that is in Jesus Christ. Romans iii. 24.-
He hath made Him, who knew no sin, to be sin for us; that we might be
made the righteousness of God in Him. Cor. v. 21.-Being justified by
faith in Him, we have peace with God. Romans v. 1.-There is therefore
now no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus, who walk not
after the flesh, but after the spirit. Romans viii. 1.

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PREFACE.

THE Redemption of Man, by our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, is the most important subject that can engage the attention of the human mind; before all others it merits our regard, and requires our love. For rational beings to believe that there is no God, no Supreme Being, and no Redeemer; that the sacred writings are merely historical, and principally fabulous, a complication of imaginary ideas arising from a misguided, or capricious understanding; or to imagine that every thing we see around us, or above us, arose at first by chance, or had eternal existence, and will have perpetual duration, is the very worst of insanity.

This mighty globe we inhabit, the sun, the moon, the starry heavens, their stupendous structure, their swift, unvaried, and perpetual motion, the vicissitude of seasons, the innumerable, and various tribes of living creatures we every day see skim the air, or tread the plain, the matchless beauty and variety of scenery perceivable amid the inanimate works of the creation, and lastly, the