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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. Upon his entrance into the Garden, He complains, My Soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto Death. There were present only Peter, James, and John his happy Favourites, who assured him of their fidelity; there was no visible enemy to afflict Him, yet his Soul was environed with Sorrows. 'Tis easy to conceive the injuries He suffered from the rage of Men, for they were terminated upon his Body; But how to understand his inward Sufferings, the wounds of his Spirit, the cross to which ⟨p. 173⟩his Soul was nailed, is very difficult. Yet these were in expressibly greater as the visible effects declare. The anguish of his soul so affected his body, that his Sweat was as it were great drops of Blood, the miraculous evidence of his Agony. The terror was so dreadful, that the assistance of an Angel could not calm it. And if we consider the causes of his grief, the dispositions of Christ, and the design of God in afflicting him, it will further appear that no sorrow was ever like his. The Causes were,
1. Upon his entrance into the Garden, He complains, My Soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto Death. There were present only Peter, James, and John his happy Favourites, who assured him of their fidelity; there was no visible enemy to afflict Him, yet his Soul was environ'd with Sorrows. 'Tis easie to conceive the injuries He suffered from the rage of Men, for they were terminated upon his Body; But how to understand his inward Sufferings, the wounds of his Spirit, the cross to which ⟨p. 173⟩his Soul was nailed, is very difficult. Yet these were in expressibly greater as the visible effects dedeclare. The anguish of his soul so affected his body, that his Sweat was as it were great drops of Blood, the miraculous evidence of his Agony. The terror was so dreadful, that the assistance of an Angel could not calm it. And if we consider the causes of his grief, the dispositions of Christ, and the design of God in afflicting him, it will further appear that no sorrow was ever like his. The Causes were,