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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.
The Misery of fallen Man consisted in the Corruption of his nature by Sin, and the Punishment that ensues: And his Happiness is in the restoring him to his primitive Holiness, and in Reconciliation to God, and the full fruition of him. The way to effect this was beyond the compass of any created Understanding.
The Misery of faln Man consisted in the Corruption of his nature by Sin, and the Punishment that ensues: And his Happiness is in the restoring him to his primitive Holiness, and in Reconciliation to God, and the full fruition of him. The way to effect this was beyond the compass of any created Understanding.
That God, who is rich in Goodness, should be favourable to the Angels, who serve him in perfect Purity, we may easily conceive; for although they do not merit his favour, yet they never provoked his Anger. And 'tis impossible but that he should love the Image of his Holiness wherever it shines.
That God, who is rich in Goodness, should be favourable to the Angels, who serve him in perfect Purity, we may easily conceive; for although they do not merit his favour, yet they never provokt his Anger. And 'tis impossible but that he should love the Image of his Holiness wherever it shines.
Or suppose an innocent creature in Misery, the Divine Mercy would speedily excite his power to rescue it: For God is Love to all his Creatures as such, till some extrinsical cause intervenes, which God hates more than he loves the Creature; and that is Sin, which alone stops the effusion of his Goodness, and opens a wide passage for wrath to fall upon the guilty. But how to save the Creature that is undone by its own choice, and is as sinful as miserable, will pose the wisdom of the world. Heaven it self seemed to be divided. Mercy inclined to save, but Justice interposed for satisfaction. Mercy regarded Man with respect to his misery, and the pleas of it are, Shall the Almighty build to ruin? Shall the most excellent creature in the lower world perish, the fault not being solely his? Shall the enemy triumph for ever, and raise