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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.
THE Divine Wisdom and Goodness was pleased, before and during the legal Dispensation, by various Predictions and Types to delineate the Person of our Redeemer, and the Work of Redemption, to prepare the Minds of Men for his Reception at his coming into the World. All the Evangelical Prophecies recorded in the Old Testament, as dispersed Rays, ⟨p. 268⟩are conspicuously united in him, the Sun of Righteousness; and as in a curious Piece of Mosaic Work, each Stone according to its natural Vein and Colour is so exactly disposed, and with that proportion joined to another, that the lively Figure of the Humane Body, results from the Composure; so by variety of Types, the entire Image of our Saviour's Life is represented from his first appearing on Earth, to his ascending to Heaven.
THE Divine Wisdom and Goodness was pleased, before and during the legal Dispensation, by various Predictions and Types to delineate the Person of our Redeemer, and the Work of Redemption, to prepare the Minds of Men for his Reception at his coming into the World. All the Evangelical Prophecies recorded in the Old Testament, as dispersed Rays, ⟨p. 268⟩are conspicuously united in him, the Sun of Righteousness; and as in a curious Piece of Mosaick Work, each Stone according to its natural Vein and Colour is so exactly disposed, and with that proportion join'd to another, that the lively Figure of the Humane Body, results from the Composure; so by variety of Types, the intire Image of our Saviour's Life is represented from his first appearing on Earth, to his ascending to Heaven.
Now the due comparing and observing the harmonious Agreement between the Prophesies and Types of the Old Testament, and the History of the New, is a powerful means to produce and establish a true lively Faith in the blessed Jesus as the promised Messiah: For it is an infallible Argument of the Divine Providence in disposing Times and Things so, as the Oracle should be verified in the Event, and the mysterious Figures substantially exhibited in the manifestation of the Son of God. 'Tis true, his Miracles raised Admiration, and argued the concurrence of Power truly Divine: For the exercise of an absolute Dominion over the Order of Nature, is a Royalty reserved