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The four last things viz. death, judgment, heaven, hell, practically considered and applied in…
The four last things viz. death, judgment, heaven, hell, practically considered and applied in several discourses / by William Bates.
London: printed for Brabazon Aylmer, 1691
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
OF DEATH.
HEB. 2.15. And deliver them, who through fear of Death were all their Life-time subject to Bondage.
IN the first Chapter of this Epistle, the Proofs of the Eternal Deity of Christ are produced with that evidence of Scripture-Light, that only a veiled Heart, obstinate Infidelity can resist. The Medium which the inspired Penman makes use of, is, the comparing ⟨p. 2⟩him with the Angels, the most noble Flower of the Creation, and showing that he is infinitely dignified above them. This he does by a strong connection of Arguments: First, By his Title that is divinely high and peculiar to himself. He is declared by the Testimony of the eternal Father to be his Son, 1in the most proper and sublime sense: begotten of him, and therefore having the same essential Perfections of the Godhead in their uncreated Glory. But the Angels are not dignified with this Name in any Places of Scripture, where the Excellency of the Angels is in the fullest Terms expressed. And that this Name is taken from his Nature, is clearly proved: because Adoration is due to him upon this account, even from the Angels of the highest Order.2 When he bringeth in the first-begotten into the World, he saith, And let all the Angels of God worship him.