[Sermones "Dormi secure" de tempore]

world to save sinners. Titus 3 Not by the works of justice which we have done, but according to His great mercy He saved us.
¶ In what great misery of damnation we were; we offended God, and He was in no way obligated to us, He was in no way in need of us, and yet for our sake He came into the world, where He endured so many inconveniences and such great death.
Behold with what great mercy the Lord comes to men, the Lord to His own, the rich to the needy, the powerful to the infirm, the wise to the foolish, the good to the impious, the physician to the sick.
And from Ezekiel

this is clear through this where it is said: In whatever hour the sinner groans, I will no longer remember his sins.
And Job 3

for He is truthful to fulfill what He promised.
¶ A corollary follows: that God will never damn us. But I fear that we ourselves, through our sins, will damn ourselves if we do not convert ourselves to pardon through true and integral confession, and therefore Christ came into this world so that He might save us, like a physician, as is clear in the gospel of Luke 10.
Luke 10

¶ A certain man was descending from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves who stripped him and wounded him even unto death, and left him half-dead. But a priest came. Afterwards, a Samaritan came who was moved by mercy toward that infirm person, and he washed his wounds with wine and poured in oil, healing him, etc. Thus, morally, this man who descends from Jerusalem to Jericho is humanity descending through sin from a state of innocence into a state of misery, and it fell among thieves, that is, the evil spirits who

stripped him of his virtues like thieves, and wounded him even unto the death of the soul. Which is lamented:
Isaiah 53

We were wounded because of our sins, but the priest, that is, the priests of the old law, could not cure him. Nor the Levite, that is, the fathers of the law of nature. But the Samaritan came, that is, our physician, Jesus Christ, who, moved by mercy, poured wine of His humanity mixed with truth and with the oil of mercy into our wounds, and the physician healed us. Therefore Isaiah 53 says: We were wounded and by His stripes we are healed. And thus it is clear according to the fact that Christ came into this world as a physician to the infirm.
¶ Thirdly, I said that Christ comes into the mind of a man like a friend to a friend. We see with our eyes when someone has a friend who wants to come to him and desires to enrich him in all things, he is accustomed to prepare himself, to order his lodging as much as he is able. Thus, spiritually, Christ, our true friend, who shows great friendship toward us, because He endured death for us in true friendship.
Ecclesiasticus 6

Whence it is said: There is no comparison for a faithful friend. And that friend would gladly come to us daily by pouring His grace into us, if we were prepared, as He Himself says:
Apocalypse 3

I stand at the door and knock; if any man shall open to me, I will come in and will sup with him.
¶ For how much the devout soul is excited in the advent of that friend.
Zechariah 2

Whence He says: Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Zion, for behold I come, says the Lord. The daughter of Zion is a devout soul which ought to love God with a pure heart. For the heart, according to the philosopher, is placed in the middle of the body.