bailey-like body, fu' o' his ain importance, an' ready to be doon upo'
onybody 'at didna ca' him by the name o' 's office--ay think-thinkin'
aboot 's ain glory; in place o' the quaiet, michty, gran',
self-forgettin', a'-creatin', a'-uphaudin', eternal bein', wha took the
form o' man in Christ Jesus, jist that he micht hae 't in 's pooer to
beir and be humblet for oor sakes. Eh, grannie! think o' the face o'
that man o' sorrows, that never said a hard word till a sinfu' wuman, or
a despised publican: was he thinkin' aboot 's ain glory, think ye? An'
we hae no richt to say we ken God save in the face o' Christ Jesus.
Whatever 's no like Christ is no like God.'

'But, laddie, he cam to saitisfee God's justice by sufferin' the
punishment due to oor sins; to turn aside his wrath an' curse; to
reconcile him to us. Sae he cudna be a'thegither like God.'

'He did naething o' the kin', grannie. It's a' a lee that. He cam to
saitisfee God's justice by giein' him back his bairns; by garrin' them
see that God was just; by sendin' them greetin' hame to fa' at his feet,
an' grip his knees an' say, "Father, ye're i' the richt." He cam to lift
the weicht o' the sins that God had curst aff o' the shoothers o' them
'at did them, by makin' them turn agen them, an' be for God an' no
for sin. And there isna a word o' reconceelin' God till 's in a' the
Testament, for there was no need o' that: it was us that he needed to be
reconcilet to him. An' sae he bore oor sins and carried oor sorrows; for
those sins comin' oot in the multitudes--ay and in his ain disciples
as weel, caused him no en' o' grief o' mind an' pain o' body, as a'body
kens. It wasna his ain sins, for he had nane, but oors, that caused him
sufferin'; and he took them awa'--they're vainishin' even noo frae the
earth, though it doesna luik like it in Rag-fair or Petticoat-lane.
An' for oor sorrows--they jist garred him greit. His richteousness
jist annihilates oor guilt, for it's a great gulf that swallows up and
destroys 't. And sae he gae his life a ransom for us: and he is the life
o' the world. He took oor sins upo' him, for he cam into the middle o'
them an' took them up--by no sleicht o' han', by no quibblin' o' the
lawyers, aboot imputin' his richteousness to us, and sic like, which is
no to be found i' the Bible at a', though I dinna say that there's no
possible meanin' i' the phrase, but he took them and took them awa'; and
here am I, grannie, growin' oot o' my sins i