A26796:356
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. The evil of Sin which infinitely exceeds all other: for the just measure of an evil is taken from the good to which it is opposite, and of which it deprives us. Now Sin is formally opposite to the Holy nature, and will of God, and meritoriously deprives of his blessed presence for ever. Therefore God being the supreme Good, Sin is the supreme evil. And grief being the resentment of an evil, that which is proportioned to the evil of Sin must be infinite. Now the Lord Christ alone had perfect light to discover Sin in its true horror, and perfect zeal to hate it according to its nature: for who can understand the excellency of good, and the malignity of evil, but the Author of the one and the Judge of the other? who can fully conceive the guilt of rebellion against God, but the Son of God who is alone able to comprehend his own Majesty? On this account the grief of our Redeemer exceeded all the sorrow of repenting Sinners, from the beginning of the World. For our knowledge is so imperfect, and our zeal so remiss, that our grief for sin is much beneath what 'tis worthy of, but sin was as hateful to Christ as it is in it self, and his sorrow was equal to its evil.
1. The evil of Sin which infinitely exceeds all other: for the just measure of an evil is taken from the good to which it is opposit, and of which it deprives us. Now Sin is formally opposit to the Holy nature, and will of God, and meritoriously deprives of his blessed presence for ever. Therefore God being the supreme Good, Sin is the supreme evil. And grief being the resentment of an evil, that which is proportioned to the evil of Sin must be infinite. Now the Lord Christ alone had perfect light to discover Sin in its true horrour, and perfect zeal to hate it according to its nature: for who can understand the excellency of good, and the malignity of evil, but the Author of the one and the Judge of the other? who can fully conceive the guilt of rebellion against God, but the Son of God who is alone able to comprehend his own Majesty? On this account the grief of our Redeemer exceeded all the sorrow of repenting Sinners, from the beginning of the World. For our knowledge is so imperfect, and our zeal so remiss, that our grief for sin is much beneath what 'tis worthy of, but sin was as hateful to Christ as it is in it self, and his sorrow was equal to its evil.