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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. The Reasons why we are redeemed by the Satisfaction of Justice.
2. The Reality of the Satisfaction made by our Redeemer.
3. The completeness and perfection of it. Concerning the first there are three different Opinions, among those who acknowledge the reality of Satisfaction.
3. The compleatness and perfection of it. Concerning the first there are three different Opinions, among those who acknowledge the reality of Satisfaction.
1. That 'tis not possible that Sin should be pardoned without Satisfaction. For Justice being a natural and necessary excellency in God, hath an unchangeable respect to the qualities which are in the Creatures: That as the Divine Goodness is necessarily exercised towards a Creature perfectly holy, so Justice is in punishing the guilty, unless a Satisfaction intervene. And if it be not possible, considering the perfection of the Deity, that Holiness should be unrewarded, far less can it be, that Sin should be unpunished: since the exercise of Justice, upon which Punishment depends, is more necessary than that of Goodness, which is the cause of Remuneration. For the Rewards which Bounty dispenses are pure Favours, whereas the Punishments which Justice inflicts, are due. In short, Since Justice is a Perfection, 'tis in God in a supreme degree, and being infinite 'tis inflexible. This Opinion is asserted by several Divines of eminent Learning.