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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. The Completeness of his Satisfaction is grounded on the degrees of his Sufferings. There was no defect in the payment He made. We owed a debt of Blood to the Law, and his Life was offered up as a Sacrifice: otherwise the Law had remained in its full vigour, and Justice had been unsatisfied. That a Divine Person hath suffered our Punishment, is properly the reason of our Redemption. As 'tis not the quality of the Surety that releases the Debtor from Prison, but the payment which he makes in his name. The Blood of Christ shed, 1poured forth from his Veins, and offered up to God, in that precise consideration ratifies the New Testament. The sum is, Our Saviour by his Death suffered the malediction of the Law, and his Divine Nature gave a ⟨p. 268⟩full value to his Sufferings, so that the satisfaction proceeding from them, was not meerly ex pacto, as Brass Money is currant by composition; but ex merito, as pure Gold hath an intrinsic worth; and God who was infinitely provoked, is infinitely pleased.
2. The Compleatness of his Satisfaction is grounded on the degrees of his Sufferings. There was no defect in the payment He made. We owed a debt of Blood to the Law, and his Life was offer'd up as a Sacrifice: otherwise the Law had remained in its full vigour, and Justice had been unsatisfied. That a Divine Person hath suffered our Punishment, is properly the reason of our Redemption. As 'tis not the quality of the Surety that releases the Debtor from Prison, but the payment which he makes in his name. The Blood of Christ shed, 1poured forth from his Veins, and offered up to God, in that precise consideration ratifies the New Testament. The sum is, Our Saviour by his Death suffer'd the malediction of the Law, and his Divine Nature gave a ⟨p. 268⟩full value to his Sufferings, so that the satisfaction proceeding from them, was not meerly ex pacto, as Brass Money is currant by composition; but ex merito, as pure Gold hath an intrinsick worth; and God who was infinitly provokt, is infinitely pleased.