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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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2. They differ in their measures. The Evils that Believers suffer are always proportioned to their strength. They are not the sudden eruptions of Anger, but deliberate Dispensations: David deprecates Gods Judgment as 'tis opposed to Favour, Enter not into Judgment with thy Servant, O Lord:1 and Jeremiah desires Gods Judgment, as 'tis opposed to Fury, Correct me, Oh Lord, in thy Judgment, 2not in thy Fury. 'Tis the gracious Promise of God to David with respect to Solomon: 3If he commit Iniquity I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men: that is, Chastise him moderately: For in the stile of the Scripture as things are magnified by the Epithet Divine, or of God, as the Cedars of God, that is, very tall; And Nineveh is called The City of God, that is, very great: So to signify things that are in a mediocrity, the Scripture ⟨p. 288⟩uses the Epithet humane, or of Men: And according to the Rule of Opposition, the Rod of God is an extraordinary Affliction which destroys the Sinner; 'tis such a Punishment as a man can neither inflict, nor endure: But the Rod of Men is a moderate Correction, that doth not exceed the strength of the Patient. But every purely vindictive Punishment which the Law pronounces, is in proportion to the nature of the Crime, not the strength of the Criminal.
2. They differ in their measures. The Evils that Believers suffer are alwaies proportioned to their strength. They are not the sudden eruptions of Anger, but deliberate Dispensations: David deprecates Gods Judgment as 'tis opposed to Favour, Enter not into Judgment with thy Servant, O Lord:1 and Jeremiah desires Gods Judgment, as 'tis opposed to Fury, Correct me, Oh Lord, in thy Judgment, 2not in thy Fury. 'Tis the gracious Promise of God to David with respect to Solomon: 3