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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.
2. 'Tis Spiritual, and there must be a divine Disposition of the Soul, before it is capable of it. The pure in heart can only see the pure God. The Felicity above is that which Eye hath not seen, 1nor Ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive. 2Now the carnal Man is only affected with gross and corporeal things. The certainty, immensity, and immortality of the Heavenly Reward, doth not prevail with him to seek after it. He hath no palate for Spiritual Pleasures, 'tis vitiated by luscious Vanities, and can't relish rational and refined Joys. 'Till the temper of the Soul be altered, the bread of Angels is distasteful to it. For the Appetite is according to the disposition of the Stomach, and when that is corrupted, it longs for things hurtful and rejects wholesome food. If a carnal Man were translated to Heaven, where the Love of God reigns, and where the brightest and sweetest discoveries of his Glory appear, he would not find Paradise in Heaven it self. For Delight arises not ⟨p. 69⟩merely from the excellency of the object, but from the proportionableness to the Faculty. Though God is an infinite Good in himself, yet if he is not conceived as the Supreme Good to Man, he cannot make him happy.
2. 'Tis Spiritual, and there must be a divine Disposition of the Soul, before it is capable of it. The pure in heart can only see the pure God. The Felicity above is that which Eye hath not seen, 1nor Ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive. 2Now the carnal Man is only affected with gross and corporeal things. The certainty, immensity, and immortality of the Heavenly Reward, doth not prevail with him to seek after it. He hath no palate for Spiritual Pleasures, 'tis vitiated by luscious Vanities, and can't rellish rational and refined Joys. 'Till the temper of the Soul be altered, the bread of Angels is distastful to it. For the Appetite is according to the disposition of the Stomack, and when that is corrupted, it longs for things hurtful and rejects wholsome food. If a carnal Man were translated to Heaven, where the Love of God reigns, and where the brightest and sweetest discoveries of his Glory appear, he would not find Paradise in Heaven it self. For Delight arises not