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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. 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.
3. There is an infinite good redounds from his Sufferings: for Sinners are exempted from Death, and the preservation of the guilty is for the glory of Gods government: for those who are redeemed by his Death, are renewed by his Spirit. He covers their sins, that he may cure them. He is made Righteousness and Sanctification to his People. The serious belief that Christ by dying hath rescued us from Hell,1 produces a superlative Love to him, an ingenuous and grateful fear lest we should offend Him, an ambition to please Him in all things; briefly, Universal Obedience to his Will, as its most natural and necessary effect. So that in laying the punishment on Christ, under which Mankind must have sunk for ever, there is nothing against Justice.