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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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And not only the Will of the Father, but the nature of the thing it self required this way of proceeding. For Jesus Christ by voluntary susception undertaking to satisfy the Law for us, as he was obliged to suffer what was necessary in order to our Redemption, so 'twas reasonable after Justice was satisfied, that the humane nature should be freed from its infirmities, and the Glory of his Divine be so conspicuous, that every tongue should confess that Jesus who was despised on Earth is supreme Lord: The Apostle sums up all together in that triumphant challenge, Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's Elect? 1'Tis God that justifies, who is he that condemneth? 'Tis Christ that died, yea rather is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
And not only the Will of the Father, but the nature of the thing it self required this way of proceeding. For Jesus Christ by voluntary susception undertaking to satisfie the Law for us, as he was obliged to suffer what was necessary in order to our Redemption, so 'twas reasonable after Justice was satisfied, that the humane nature should be freed from its infirmities, and the Glory of his Divine be so conspicuous, that every tongue should confess that Jesus who was despised on Earth is supreme Lord: The Apostle sums up all together in that triumphant challeng, Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's Elect? 1'Tis God that justifies, who is he that condemneth? 'Tis Christ that died, yea rather is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
- 1Rom. 8▪34, 35.
3. The excellent benefits which God reconciled bestows upon us, are the effects and evidences of the completeness of Christs Satisfaction. And these are pardon of Sin, Grace, and Glory. The Apostle tells us that the Law made nothing perfect: all its Sacrifices and Ceremonies could not expiate the guilt,