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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.
1And Saint Peter tells us, That the Father hath made him Lord and Christ: That is, by a Sovereign trust hath committed to him the Government of the Church, and the World: not divesting ⟨p. 275⟩himself of his essential Dominion, but exercising it by Christ. The height of this Dignity is emphatically set forth by the Apostle: The Father hath seated him at his own right hand in the Heavenly places, far above all Principalities, and Powers, 2and Might, and Dominion, (which titles signify the several degrees of Glory, among the Angels) and every name that is named not only in this World▪ but that which is to come: that is, hath given him a transcendent and incommunicable Glory, the use of names being to signify the quality of Persons. In short, he is made the Head of the Church, and Judge of the World: Angels and Men shall stand before his Tribunal, and receive their Eternal decision from him. Now in this economy of our Mediator, his Humiliation was the cause of his Exaltation upon a double account.
1And Saint Peter tells us, That the Father hath made him Lord and Christ: That is, by a Soveraign trust hath committed to him the Government of the Church, and the World: not devesting ⟨p. 275⟩himself of his essential Dominion, but exercising it by Christ. The height of this Dignity is emphatically set forth by the Apostle: The Father hath seated him at his own right hand in the Heavenly places, far above all Principalities, and Powers, 2and Might, and Dominion, (which titles signify the several degrees of Glory, among the Angels) and every name that is named not only in this World▪ but that which is to come: that is, hath given him a transcendent and incommunicable Glory, the use of names being to signify the quality of Persons. In short, he is made the Head of the Church, and Judge of the World: Angels and Men shall stand before his Tribunal, and receive their Eternal decision from him. Now in this oeconomy of our Mediator, his Humiliation was the cause of his Exaltation upon a double account.