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The harmony of the divine attributes in the contrivance and accomplishment of man's redemption…
The harmony of the divine attributes in the contrivance and accomplishment of man's redemption by the Lord Jesus Christ, or, Discourses wherein is showed how the wisdom, mercy, justice, holiness, power, and truth of God are glorified in that great and blessed work / by William Bates.The harmony of the divine attributes in the contrivance and accomplishment of man's redemption by the Lord Jesus Christ, or, Discourses wherein is shewed how the wisdom, mercy, justice, holiness, power, and truth of God are glorified in that great and blessed work / by William Bates.
London: printed by J. Darby for Nathaniel Ranew and Jonathan Robinson and Brabazon Aylmer, 1674
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.
1. The Divine Power could have preserved Man in his Integrity, either by laying a restraint on the apostate Angels, that they should never have made ⟨p. 45⟩an attempt upon him; or by keeping the Understanding waking and vigilant, to discover the danger of the Temptation, and by fortifying the Will, and rendering it impenetrable to the fiery darts of Satan, without any prejudice to its freedom. For that doth not consist in an absolute Indifference, but in a judicious and deliberate choice; so that when the Soul is not led by a blind instinct, nor forced by a foreign power,1 but embraces what it knows and approves, it then enjoys the most true Liberty. Thus in the glorified Spirits above, by the full and constant Light of the Mind, the Will is indeclinably sixth upon its supreme Good, and this is its Crown and Perfection.
1. The Divine Power could have preserved Man in his Integrity, either by laying a restraint on the apostate Angels, that they should never have made ⟨p. 45⟩an attempt upon him; or by keeping the Understanding waking and vigilant, to discover the danger of the Temptation, and by fortifying the Will, and rendring it impenetrable to the fiery darts of Satan, without any prejudice to its freedom. For that doth not consist in an absolute Indifference, but in a judicious and deliberate choice; so that when the Soul is not led by a blind instinct, nor forc'd by a forreign power,1 but embraces what it knows and approves, it then enjoyes the most true Liberty. Thus in the glorified Spirits above, by the full and constant Light of the Mind, the Will is indeclinably fixt upon its supreme Good, and this is its Crown and Perfection.
- 1Quando Anima tanta satiabitur vision, & tanta inflammabitur Charitate superioris boni, ut ad seipsam sibi placendo deficere ab illius dilectione non possit, Aug. Lib. 4. cont. Jul.Quando Anima tanta satiabitur visione, & tanta inflammabitur Charitate superioris boni, ut ad seipsam sibi placendo deficere ab illius dilectione non possit, Aug. Lib. 4. cont. Jul.