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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. He had full Power to dispose of his life: I have power to lay it down, 1and I have power to take it again: this Commandment have I received of my Father. He declares his Power as God, that his life entirely depended on his will, to preserve it, or part with it: and his subjection as Mediator to the order of his Father.
1. He had full Power to dispose of his life: I have power to lay it down, 1and I have power to take it again: this Commandment have I received of my Father. He declares his Power as God, that his life intirely depended on his will, to preserve it, or part with it: and his subjection as Mediator to the order of his Father.
2. Our Saviour could not finally Perish. 'Twas not possible he should be held under the power of Death. 1Otherwise it had been against the Laws of reason, that the precious should for ever suffer for the vile. Better ten thousand Worlds had been lost, than that the Holy One of God should perish. He saved us through his Sufferings, though as by fire: and had a glorious reward in the issue.