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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
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3. In regard of his supreme Dominion, which extends it self to all things in Heaven and Earth. Now in the Participation of these, the Image of God did principally consist. The Holiness of Man was the copy of the Divine purity: his Happiness a representation of the Divine Felicity: and his Dominion over the lower World, the resemblance of Gods Sovereignty.
3. In regard of his supreme Dominion, which extends it self to all things in Heaven and Earth. Now in the Participation of these, the Image of God did principally consist. The Holiness of Man was the copy of the Divine purity: his Happiness a representation of the Divine Felicity: and his Dominion over the lower World, the resemblance of Gods Soveraignty.
I will take a particular survey of them.
1. Man was conformed to God in Holiness. This appears by the expressions of the Apostle, concerning the Sanctification of corrupt man; which he sets forth, by the renewing of him in knowledge, 1righteousness and holiness, after the image of the Creator. ⟨p. 4⟩The Renovation of things, is the restoring of them to their Primitive state,2 and is more, or less perfect, by its proportion to, or distance from the Original. Holiness, & Righteousness, are the comprehensive Sum of the Moral Law,3 which not only represents the Will, but the Nature of God in his Supreme Excellency, and in conformity to it the Divine likeness eminently appeared. Adam was created with the perfection of Grace, the progress of the most excellent Saints is incomparably short of his beginning; By this we may in part conjecture at the Beauty of Holiness in him, of which one faint ray appearing in renewed persons is so amiable. This primitive Beauty is expressed in Scripture by rectitude: God made Man upright. There was an universal entire rectitude in his Faculties, disposing them for their proper Operations. This will more fully appear, by considering the distinct powers of the Soul, in their regular Constitutions.