Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922.
Redemption
In cruce salus.
Salvation by the cross.
Thomas á Kempis—De Imitatio Christi. Bk. II. 2. Adapted from “A cruce salus.”
Say, heavenly pow’rs, where shall we find such love?
Which of ye will be mortal to redeem
Man’s mortal crime, and just th’ unjust to save.
Milton—Paradise Lost. Bk. III. L. 213.
And now without redemption all mankind
Must have been lost, adjudged to death and hell
By doom severe.
Milton—Paradise Lost. Bk. III. L. 222.
Why, all the souls that are were forfeit once;
And He that might the vantage best have took
Found out the remedy.
Measure for Measure. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 73.
Condemned into everlasting redemption for this.
Much Ado About Nothing. Act IV. Sc. 2. L. 58.