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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.
1. It arises from the consideration of those Arguments which convince the Mind, that the Scripture is a Divine Revelation: I know, saith the Apostle, whom I have believed. 1And we are commanded Always to be ready to give an account of the hope that is in us. 2Those that owe their Christianity merely to the Felicity of their Birth, without a sight of that transcendent excellency in our Religion, which evidences that it came from Heaven, do not believe aright. As the Eye that is clouded with a Suffusion, so that all things appear yellow to it, when it judges things to be yellow that are so, its judgment is vicious: Because it proceeds not from the quality of the object, but from its own indisposition. So those that believe the Gospel upon a false Principle, because 'tis the Religion of their Country, though in its self the word of Truth, yet they are not right Believers. 'Tis not Judgment but Chance that inclines them to embrace it. The Turks upon the same reason are zealous votaries of Mahomet, as they are Disciples of Christ.
1. It arises from the consideration of those Arguments which convince the Mind, that the Scripture is a Divine Revelation: I know, saith the Apostle, whom I have believed. 1And we are commanded Alwaies to be ready to give an account of the hope that is in us. 2Those that owe their Christianity meerly to the Felicity of their Birth, without a sight of that transcendent excellency in our Religion, which evidences that it came from Heaven, do not believe aright. As the Eye that is clouded with a Suffusion, so that all things appear yellow to it, when it judges things to be yellow that are so, its judgment is vitious: Because it proceeds not from the quality of the object, but from its own indisposition. So those that believe the Gospel upon a false Principle, because 'tis the Religion of their Country, though in its self the word of Truth, yet they are not right Believers. 'Tis not Judgment but Chance that enclines them to embrace it. The Turks upon the same reason are zealous votaries of Mahomet, as they are Disciples of Christ.