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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.
2. The Greatness of the Divine Love towards fallen Man appears in the means by which our Redemption is accomplished. And those are the Incarnation and Sufferings of the Son of God. The Incarnation manifests this Love upon a double account.
2. The Greatness of the Divine Love towards faln Man appears in the means by which our Redemption is accomplisht. And those are the Incarnation and Sufferings of the Son of God. The Incarnation manifests this Love upon a double account.
1. In regard of the essential condition of the nature he assumed. 2. Its Servile state and meanness▪
1. In regard of the essential condition of the nature he assum'd. 2. Its Servile state and meanness▪
1. The essential condition of the humane nature assumed by our Redeemer discovers his transcendent Love to us. For what proportion is there between God and Man? Infinite and Finite are not terms that admit comparison, as Greater and Less, but are distant, as All and Nothing. The whole World before him,1 is but as the drop of the Bucket that hath scarce weight to fall; and the small dust of the Balance, that is not of such moment as to turn the scales; 'tis as nothing, and counted less then nothing and vanity. The Deity in its own nature includes Independence and Sovereignty. To be a Creature implies dependence, and subjection. The Angelical Nature is infinitely inferior to the Divine, and Man is lower then the Angels; yet the Word was made Flesh. Add to this, he was not made as Adam in the perfection of his nature, and beginning the first step of his life in the full exercise of Reason, and Dominion over the Creatures, but he came into the World by the way of a natural birth, and dependence upon a mortal Creature. The Eternal Wisdom of the Father stooped to a state of infancy, which is most distant from that of Wisdom, wherein though the Life yet the Light of the reasonable Soul is not visible, & the mighty God to a condition of indigence and infirmity. The Lord