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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.
3. There is an excellent manifestation of Divine Love, in the glorious reward that is promised to Believers, which far exceeds the primitive felicity of Man. Adam was under the Covenant of nature, that promised a reward suitable to his obedience, and state. The manner of declaring that Covenant was natural.
3. There is an excellent manifestation of Divine Love, in the glorious reward that is promised to Believers, which far exceeds the primitive felicity of Man. Adam was under the Covenant of nature, that promised a reward sutable to his obedience, and state. The manner of declaring that Covenant was natural.
1. External, by the discovery of God's Attributes in his Works, from which it was easy for man to collect his duty and his reward.
1. External, by the discovery of God's Attributes in his Works, from which it was easie for man to collect his duty and his reward.
2. Internal, by his natural faculties. By the light of Reason he understood that so long as he continued in his original Innocence, the Creator who from pure goodness gave him his being, and all the happiness which was concomitant with it, would certainly preserve him in the perpetual enjoyment of it. But there was no promise of Heaven annexed to that Covenant, without which Adam could attain no knowledge, nor conceive any hopes of it. If there had been a necessary connection between his perfect Obedience, and the life of Glory, it would have been revealed to him, to allure his will: for there can be no desire of an unknown good. And whereas in the Covenant God principally and primarily regards the promise, and but secondarily the threatening, the exercise of goodness being more pleasing to him than of revenging justice; 'tis said, that God expressly threatened Death, but he made no promise of Heaven: