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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. The strictness of Divine Justice appears, that required Satisfaction equivalent to the desert of sin. The natural Notion of the Deity, as the Governor of the World, instructed the Heathens, That the transgression of his Laws was worthy of Death. 1This proves that the obligation to punishment, doth not arise from the mere will of God, which is only discovered by Revelation, but is founded in the nature of things, and by its own light is manifested to reasonable creatures. From hence they inferred, That it was not becoming the Divine nature, as qualified with the relation of Supreme Ruler, to pardon Sin without ⟨p. 295⟩Satisfaction. This appears by the Sacrifices and Ceremonies, the Religions and Expiations which were performed by the most ignorant Nations. And although they infinitely abused themselves in the conceit they had of their pretended efficacy and virtue, yet the universal consent of Mankind in the belief that Satisfaction was necessary, declares it to be true. This, as other natural Doctrines, is more fully revealed by Scripture. 2Under the Law without shedding of blood there was no remission, not that common Blood could make Satisfaction for Sin, but God commanded there should be a visible mark of its necessity, in the Worship offered to him, and a prefiguration that it should be accomplished by a Sacrifice eternally efficacious.
2. The strictness of Divine Justice appears, that required Satisfaction equivalent to the desert of sin. The natural Notion of the Deity, as the Governour of the World, instructed the Heathens, That the transgression of his Laws was worthy of Death. 1This proves that the obligation to punishment, doth not arise from the mere will of God, which is only discovered by Revelation, but is founded in the nature of things, and by its own light is manifested to reasonable creatures. From hence they inferred, That it was not becoming the Divine nature, as qualified with the relation of Supreme Ruler, to pardon Sin without ⟨p. 295⟩