A26796:190
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.
Of the Divine Wisdom in the contrivance of Man's Redemption. Understanding agents propound an End, and choose Means for the obtaining it. The End of God is of the highest consequence, his own Glory and Man's Recovery. The difficulty of accomplishing it. The Means are proportionable. The Divine Wisdom glorified in taking occasion from the Sin and Fall of Man to bring Glory to God, and to raise Man to a more excellent State. It appears in ordaining such a Mediator, as was fit to reconcile God to Man, and Man to God. 'Tis discovered in the designation of the Second Person to be our Saviour. And making the Remedy to have a proportion to the cause of our Ruin. 'Tis visible in the manner whereby our Redemption is accomplished. And in the ordaining such contemptible means to produce such glorious effects. And laying the design of the Gospel, so as to provide for the comfort, and promote the holiness of Man.
Of the Divine Wisdome in the contrivance of Man's Redemption. Understanding agents propound an End, and choose Means for the obtaining it. The End of God is of the highest consequence, his own Glory and Man's Recovery. The difficulty of accomplishing it. The Means are proportionable. The Divine Wisdome glorified in taking occasion from the Sin and Fall of Man to bring Glory to God, and to raise Man to a more excellent State. It appears in ordaining such a Mediator, as was fit to reconcile God to Man, and Man to God. 'Tis discovered in the designation of the Second Person to be our Saviour. And making the Remedy to have a proportion to the cause of our Ruine. 'Tis visible in the manner whereby our Redemption is accomplisht. And in the ordaining such contemptible means to produce such glorious effects. And laying the design of the Gospel, so as to provide for the comfort, and promote the holiness of Man.
GOD by his infallible Prescience (to which all things are eternally present) viewing the Fall of Adam, and that all Mankind lay bleeding in him, out of deep compassion to his Creature, and that the Devil might not be finally victorious over him, in his Counsel decreed the Recovery of Man from his languishing and miserable state. The design and the means are most worthy of God, and in both his Wisdom appears.