A26786:197
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.
3. As his right to govern and judg the World is natural, so are his Attributes, his Wisdom, Holiness, Justice and Power, that qualify and render him most worthy to exercise this Government. These are finite separable Qualities in Angels or Men, but essential Perfections to the Deity. 'Tis more rational to conceive that things may be congealed by the heat of Fire, or turned black by whiteness, than that the least act of Injustice can be done by the righteous Lord. The Apostle rejects with extreme detestation, the blasphemous Charge of Unrighteousness in God's Proceedings: Is God unrighteous that taketh Vengeance? 1God forbid: For then how shall God judg the World? He may as soon renounce his Nature, and cease ⟨p. 153⟩to be God, for as such he is necessarily Judg of the World, as violate his own Perfections in his judicial proceedings with us.
3. As his right to govern and judg the World is natural, so are his Attributes, his Wisdom, Holiness, Justice and Power, that qualify and render him most worthy to exercise this Government. These are finite separable Qualities in Angels or Men, but essential Perfections to the Deity. 'Tis more rational to conceive that things may be congeal'd by the heat of Fire, or turn'd black by whiteness, than that the least act of Injustice can be done by the righteous Lord. The Apostle rejects with extreme detestation, the blasphemous Charge of Unrighteousness in God's Proceedings: Is God unrighteyus that taketh Vengeance? 1God forbid: For then how shall God judg the World? He may as soon renounce his Nature, and cease ⟨p. 153⟩to be God, for as such he is necessarily Judg of the World, as violate his own Perfections in his judicial proceedings with us.