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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.
CHAP. I.
The Introduction. A short view of Mans primitive State. His Conformity to God; natural, moral, and in Happiness and Dominion over the Creatures. The moral resemblance, as it refers to all the faculties. The happiness of Man with respect to his sensitive and spiritual Nature. Of all sublunary Creatures he is only capable of a Law. What the Law of Nature contains. God entered into a Covenant with Man. The Reasons of that Dispensation. The Terms of the Covenant were becoming God and Man. The special clause in The Covenant concerning the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. The Reasons of the Prohibition.
The Introduction. A short view of Mans primitive State. His Conformity to God; natural, moral, and in Happiness and Dominion over the Creatures. The moral resemblance, as it refers to all the faculties. The happiness of Man with respect to his sensitive and spiritual Nature. Of all sublunary Creatures he is onely capable of a Law. What the Law of Nature contains. God entred into a Covenant with Man. The Reasons of that Dispensation. The Terms of the Covenant were becoming God and Man. The special clause in The Covenant concerning the Tree of Knowledg of Good and Evil. The Reasons of the Prohibition.
The felicity which the Lord Jesus procured for Believers, includes a perfect freedom from Sin,1 and all afflictive evils, the just consequents of it: and the fruition of Righteousness, Peace, 2and Joy, wherein the Kingdom of God consists. In this the second Covenant excels the first; the Law supposes Man upright, and the happiness it promises to exact Obedience, is called Life, it rewards Innocence with Immortality: but the Blessedness of the Gospel is styled Salvation, which signifies the rescuing of lapsed Man from a state of misery, and the investing of him with unperishing Glory.