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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.
Thirdly, The Divine Wisdom appears in the designation of the Person. For God resolving to save Man in a way that is honourable to his Justice, it was expedient a Person in the Blessed Trinity should be put into a state of subjection, to endure the punishment due to Sin; But it was not convenient the Father should: For
Thirdly, The Divine Wisdome appears in the designation of the Person. For God resolving to save Man in a way that is honourable to his Justice, it was expedient a Person in the Blessed Trinity should be put into a state of subjection, to endure the punishment due to Sin; But it was not convenient the Father should: For
1. He must then have been sent into the World, which is incongruous to the Relations that are between those glorious Persons. For as they subsist in a certain Order, so their Operations are according to the manner of their subsistence. The Father is from Himself, and the first motions in all things are ascribed to Him; the Son is from the Father, and all his actions take their rise from him. The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do. 1The effecting our Redemption is referred to the Fathers Will as the supreme cause: our Saviour, upon his entrance into the world to undertake that work, declares, I come to do thy will O God. Upon this account the Apostle addresses his thanks to the Father as the first Agent in our Salvation:2 3which is not to ⟨p. 94⟩lessen the glory of the Son and Spirit, but to signify that in the accomplishment of it, their working follows their being.
1. He must then have been sent into the World, which is incongruous to the Relations that are between those glorious Persons. For as they subsist in a certain Order, so their Operations are according to the manner of their subsistence. The Father is from Himself, and the first motions in all things are ascribed to Him; the Son is from the Father, and all his actions take their rise from him. The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do.