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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
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yet it were intolerable Blasphemy to say that they redeemed us by their Death. And 'tis observable, when the Death of Christ is propounded in Scripture as a Pattern of Patience, 'tis with a special Circumstance that distinguishes it from all others. Christ suffered for us, leaving us an Example that we should follow his steps: 1who his own self bare our Sins in his own Body on the Tree; by whose stripes ye were healed. The truth is, if the sole end of Christs Death were to induce Men to believe His Promises, and to imitate His Graces, there had been no such necessity of it: for the Miracles he did, had been sufficient to confirm the Gospel, yet Remission of Sins is never attributed to them: and the Miseries he Suffered during the course of his Life, had been sufficient to instruct us how to behave our selves under Indignities and Persecutions: and at the last he might have given as full a Testimony to the Truth of his Doctrine by his descent from the Cross as by dying for us. But no lower Price than his Blood could make Compensation to the Law, and satisfaction ⟨p. 249⟩to God, and to deny this, is to Rob him of the Glory of his Death, and to destroy all our Comfort.
yet it were intolerable Blasphemy to say that they redeem'd us by their Death. And 'tis observable, when the Death of Christ is propounded in Scripture as a Pattern of Patience, 'tis with a special Circumstance that distinguishes it from all others. Christ suffered for us, leaving us an Example that we should follow his steps: 1who his own self bare our Sins in his own Body on the Tree; by whose stripes ye were healed. The truth is, if the sole end of Christs Death were to induce Men to believe His Promises, and to imitate His Graces, there had been no such necessity of it: for the Miracles he did, had been sufficient to confirm the Gospel, yet Remission of Sins is never attributed to them: and the Miseries he Suffered during the course of his Life, had been sufficient to instruct us how to behave our selves under Indignities and Persecutions: and at the last he might have given as full a Testimony to the Truth of his Doctrine by his descent from the Cross as by dying for us. But no lower Price than his Blood could make Compensation to the Law, and satisfaction