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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.
And how great is that Love which pitied & rescued us from Sin and Hell? This Saving Mercy is set out for its tenderness and vehemence by the commotion of the bowels, at the sight of one in misery:1 especially the working of the Mother's, when any evil befalls her Children: Such an inward deep resentment of our distress was in the Father of Mercies. When we were in our blood, He said to us, Live. 2And that which further discovers the eminent degree of his Love is, that He might have been unconcerned with our Distress, and left us under despair of Deliverance. ⟨p. 166⟩There is a Compassion which ariseth from Self-love, when the sight of another's Misery surprises us, and affects us in such a manner as to disturb our Repose, and embitter our Joy, by considering our liableness to the same troubles, and from hence we are inclined to help them. And there is a Compassion that proceeds from pure love to the miserable, when the Person that expresses it, is above all the assaults of evil, and incapable of all Affections that might lessen his Felicity, and yet applies himself to relieve the afflicted; and such was Gods towards Man.
And how great is that Love which pitied & rescued us from Sin and Hell? This Saving Mercy is set out for its tenderness and vehemence by the commotion of the bowels, at the sight of one in misery:1 especially the working of the Mother's, when any evil befals her Children: Such an inward deep resentment of our distress was in the Father of Mercies. When we were in our blood, He said to us, Live. 2And that which further discovers the eminent degree of his Love is, that He might have been unconcerned with our Distress, and left us under despair of Deliverance. ⟨p. 166⟩There is a Compassion which ariseth from Self-love, when the sight of anothers Misery surprises us, and affects us in such a manner as to disturb our Repose, and imbitter our Joy, by considering our liableness to the same troubles, and from hence we are enclin'd to help them. And there is a Compassion that proceeds from pure love to the miserable, when the Person that expresses it, is above all the assaults of evil, and incapable of all Affections that might lessen his Felicity, and yet applies himself to relieve the afflicted; and such was Gods towards Man.