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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.
1The Gospel is called a marvellous Light, upon the ⟨p. 117⟩account of the objects it discovers. But such a perverse judgment is in men, that they neglect those things which deserve the highest admiration, and spend their wonder on meaner things. Art is more admired than Nature: a counterfeit Eye of Crystal, which hath neither sight nor motion, than the living Eye, the Sun of the little world, that directs the whole Man. And the effects of Nature are more admired, than the sublime and supernatural works of Grace. Yet these infinitely exceed the other. The World is the work of Gods hand, but the Gospel is his plot, and the chiefest of all his ways. What a combination of Wonders is there in the great Mystery of Godliness? That He who fills Heaven and Earth should be confined to the Virgins Womb; that Life should die, and being dead revive; that Mercy should triumph without any disparagement to Justice: these are Miracles that transcend all that is done in Nature.
1The Gospel is called a marvellous Light, upon the ⟨p. 117⟩account of the objects it discovers. But such a perverse judgment is in men, that they neglect those things which deserve the highest admiration, and spend their wonder on meaner things. Art is more admir'd than Nature: a counterfeit Eye of Christal, which hath neither sight nor motion, than the living Eye, the Sun of the little world, that directs the whole Man. And the effects of Nature are more admir'd, than the sublime and supernatural works of Grace. Yet these infinitely exceed the other. The World is the work of Gods hand, but the Gospel is his plot, and the chiefest of all his waies. What a combination of Wonders is there in the great Mystery of Godliness? That He who fills Heaven and Earth should be confin'd to the Virgins Womb; that Life should die, and being dead revive; that Mercy should triumph without any disparagement to Justice: these are Miracles that transcend all that is done in Nature.