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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.
The Law did neither propound, nor exclude this ⟨p. 229⟩expedient: for judging without passion against the Sinner, it is satisfied with the punishment of the Crime. For 'tis not the evil of the sufferer that is primarily designed by the Law, but the preservation of public order, for the honour of the Lawgiver, and the benefit of those that are subjects. So that the relaxing the punishment, as to the person of the Sinner, by compensation, fully answers the intent of the Law.
The Law did neither propound, nor exclude this ⟨p. 229⟩expedient: for judging without passion against the Sinner, it is satisfied with the punishment of the Crime. For 'tis not the evil of the sufferer that is primarily designed by the Law, but the preservation of publick order, for the honour of the Lawgiver, and the benefit of those that are subjects. So that the relaxing the punishment, as to the person of the Sinner, by compensation, fully answers the intent of the Law.
2. As by the right of Jurisdiction God might relax the Law, and appoint a Mediator to interpose by way of Ransom, so he hath declared his will to accept of Him. The Law in strictness obliged the Sinning person to suffer, so that he might have refused any other Satisfaction. Therefore the whole Work of our Redemption is referred to His Will as the primary cause.1 Our Saviour was sent into the World by the order of God: He was sealed, that is, authorised for that great Work by commission from Him. He was called to His Office, by the voice of his Father from heaven, 2Thou art my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. God anointed him with the Holy•Ghost, and with Power, which signifies as the enduing of Him with the Graces of the Spirit, so the investing Him in the dignity of Mediator, as Kings, Priests, and Prophets were. And both were necessary: for his Graces without his Office are unprofitable to us, and His Office without His capacity, of no advantage. In short, the Apostle observes this as the peculiar excellency of the New Covenant, and the foundation of our hopes, that the Mediator was constituted by a solemn Oath, The Lord hath sworn,