A26796:492
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.
12. The Effects of these Sacrifices declare their nature: And they are answerable to their threefold respect, to God, to Sin, to Man. To God, that his Anger might be appeased; to Sin, that the fault might be expiated; to Man, that the guilty person might obtain Pardon, and Freedom from Punishment. Thus when a Sacrifice was duly offered, 'tis said to be of a sweet savour unto the Lord, and to atone ⟨p. 253⟩him, Lev. 1.17. and the Remission of Sins, with the Release of the Sinner followed; The Priest shall expiate it, that is declaratively, and it shall be forgiven him. Now there was a double Guilt contracted by those that were under the Mosaical Dispensation.
- 1Those effects are expressed by [Greek or Hebrew] and [Greek or Hebrew] with the Hebrews, and by [Greek or Hebrew] with the Greeks. Lev. 4.20, 26, 31, 35.Those effects are exprest by 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 and 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 with the Hebrews, and by 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 with the Greeks. Lev. 4.20, 26, 31, 35.
1. Typical, From the breach of a Ceremonial Constitution, which had no relation to Morality. Such were natural Pollutions, accidental Diseases, the touching of a dead Body, &c. which were esteemed vicious according to the Law, and the Defiled were excluded from Sacred and Civil Society. Now these Impurities, considered in themselves, deserved no punishment. For involuntary and inevitable Infirmities, and corporeal things, which do not infect the inward man, are the marks of our abject and weak state, but are not in themselves sinful. Therefore Ceremonial Guilt was expiated by a Ceremonial Offering. For 'tis according to the nature of things, that Obligations should be dissolved by the same means, by which they are contracted. As therefore those Pollutions were penal merely by the positive Will of God; So, (the exercise of his Supreme Right being tempered with Wisdom and Equity,) he ordained that the guilt should be abolished by a Sacrifice, and that they should be fully restored to their former Privileges. Thus the Apostle tells us, that the Blood of those Sacrifices Sanctifies to the purifying of the flesh, that is,