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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.
What a flood of Errors and Miseries covered the Earth, when the Grace of God that brings Salvation first appeared. The Deluge was universal, and so was the Destruction. Those that were most renowned for Wisdom, the Philosophers of Greece, and the Orators of Rome, were swallowed up, only ⟨p. 113⟩the Church of Christ is triumphant over the merciless waters. When Noah from the top of the Mountain saw the sad remains of that dreadful Inundation, what a lively sense of Joy possest his breast? As Misery is heightened, so Happiness is set off by comparison:1 Not that there is any regular content to see the destruction of others; but the sense of our own preservation from a common ruin,2 raises our joy to its highest elevation. The first work of Noah after his deliverance was to build an Altar on which to offer the Sacrifices of Thanksgiving to his Preserver. We should imitate his Example.
What a flood of Errors and Miseries cover'd the Earth, when the Grace of God that brings Salvation first appeared. The Deluge was universal, and so was the Destruction. Those that were most renowned for Wisdom, the Philosophers of Greece, and the Orators of Rome, were swallowed up, only ⟨p. 113⟩the Church of Christ is triumphant over the merciless waters. When Noah from the top of the Mountain saw the sad remains of that dreadful Inundation, what a lively sense of Joy possest his breast? As Misery is heightened, so Happiness is set off by comparison:1 Not that there is any regular content to see the destruction of others; but the sense of our own preservation from a common ruine,2 raises our joy to its highest elevation. The first work of Noah after his deliverance was to build an Altar on which to offer the Sacrifices of Thanksgiving to his Preserver. We should imitate his Example.
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