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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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1. Philosophers were not sensible of the first inclinations to sin. They allow the disorder of the sensitive appetite as innocent, till it passes to the supreme part of the Soul, and induces it to deliberate, or resolve upon moral actions. For they were ignorant of that Original and intimate pollution that cleaves to the humane nature; and because our faculties are natural, they thought the first motions to forbidden objects, that are universal in the best as well as worst, to be the necessity of Nature rather then the effect of Corruption. Accordingly all their Precepts reach no farther than the Counsels of the Heart: But the desires and motions of the lower faculties, though very culpable, are left by them indifferent. So that 'tis evident that many defilements and stains are in their purgative virtues.
1. Philosophers were not sensible of the first inclinations to sin. They allow the disorder of the sensitive appetite as innocent, till it passes to the supreme part of the Soul, and induces it to deliberate, or resolve upon moral actions. For they were ignorant of that Original and intimate pollution that cleaves to the humane nature; and because our faculties are natural, they thought the first motions to forbidden objects, that are universal in the best as well as worst, to be the necessity of Nature rather then the effect of Corruption. Accordingly all their Precepts reach no farther than the Counsels of the Heart: But the desires and motions of the lower faculties, though very culpable, are left by them indifferent. So that 'tis evident that many defilements and stains are in their purgative vertues.
2. The Stoics not being able to reconcile the passions with reason, wholly renounced them. Their Philosophy is like the River in Thrace, —Quod potum saxea reddit1 Viscera, quod tactis inducit marmora rebus.
2. The Stoicks not being able to reconcile the passions with reason, wholly renounced them. Their Philosophy is like the River in Thrace, —Quod potum saxea reddit