But pass to our third part and last part: As this issue of death is _liberatio per mortem_, a deliverance by the death of another. _Sufferentiam Job audiisti, et vidisti finem Domini_, says Saint James (v. 11), _You have heard of the patience of Job_, says he: all this while you have done that, for in every man, calamitous, miserable man, a Job speaks. Now, _see the end of the Lord_, sayeth that apostle, which is not that end that the Lord proposed to himself (salvation to us), nor the end which he proposes to us (conformity to him), but _see the end of the Lord_, says he, the end that the Lord himself came to, death, and a painful and a shameful death. But why did he die? and why die so? _Quia Domini Domini sunt exitus mortis_ (as Saint Augustine, interpreting this text, answers that question),[373] because to this _God our Lord belonged the issues of death. Quid apertius diceretur?_ says he there, what can be more obvious, more manifest than this sense of these words? In the former part of this verse it is said, He that is _our God is the God of salvation; Deus salvos faciendi_, so he reads it, the God that must save us. Who can that be, says he, but Jesus? For therefore that name was given him because he was to save us. And to this Jesus, says he, this Saviour,[374] _belong the issues of death_; _Nec oportuit eum de hac vita alios exitus habere quam mortis_: being come into this life in our mortal nature, he could not go out of this life any other way but by death. _Ideo dictum_, says he, therefore it is said, _to God the Lord belonged the issues of death; ut ostenderetur moriendo nos salvos facturum_, to show that his way to save us was to die. And from this text doth Saint Isidore prove that Christ was truly man (which as many sects of heretics denied, as that he was truly God), because to him, though he were _Dominus Dominus_ (as the text doubles it), God the Lord, yet to _him, to God the Lord belonged the issues of death_; _oportuit eum pati_; more cannot be said than Christ himself says of himself; _These things Christ ought to suffer_;[375] he had no other way but death: so then this part of our sermon must needs be a passion sermon, since all his life was a continual passion, all our Lent may well be a continual Good Friday. Christ's painful life took off none of the pains of his death, he felt not the less then for having felt so much before. Nor will any thing that shall be said before lessen, but rather enlarge the devotion, to that which shall be said of his passion at the time of due solemnization thereof. Christ bled not a drop the less at the last for having bled at his circumcision before, nor will you a tear the less then if you shed some now. And therefore be now content to consider with me how _to this God the Lord belonged the issues of death_. That God, this Lord, the Lord of life, could die, is a strange contemplation; that the Red Sea could be dry, that the sun could stand still, that an oven