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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 Death he was to suffer, attended with all the Curses of the Law, and the terrible marks of Gods Indignation. From hence 'tis said, he began to be sore amazed and to be very heavy. 1'Tis wonderful that the Son of God, who had perfect patience, and the strength of the Deity to support him, who knew that his Passion should soon pass away, and that the issue should be his own glorious Resurrection and the recovery of lapsed Man, that he should be shaken with fear and oppressed with sorrow at the first approaches of it: how many of the Martyrs have with an undisturbed courage embraced a more cruel death? but to them 'twas disarmed, whereas our Saviour encountered it with all its formidable Pomp, with its Darts and Poison.
2. The Death he was to suffer, attended with all the Curses of the Law, and the terrible marks of Gods Indignation. From hence 'tis said, he began to be sore amazed and to be very heavy. 1'Tis wonderful that the Son of God, who had perfect patience, and the strength of the Deity to support him, who knew that his Passion should soon pass away, and that the issue should be his own glorious Resurrection and the recovery of lapsed Man, that he should be shaken with fear and oppressed with sorrow at the first approches of it: how many of the Martyrs have with an undisturbed courage embraced a more cruel death? but to them 'twas disarm'd, whereas our Saviour encountered it with all its formidable Pomp, with its Darts and Poison.
3. The Wrath of God was inflamed against him. For although he was perfectly Innocent, and more distant from sin than Heaven is from the Earth, yet by the ordination of God, and his own consent being made our Sponsor,