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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.
The Apostle tells us, Eye hath not seen, nor Ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive what God hath prepared for those that love him. 1All that is beautiful or sweet here, is but a shadow of that Glory, a drop of that vast Ocean of delights. For all that is desirable in the Creatures, and is dispersed among them, is united in God as the Original, in an infinite and indeficient manner, with all the Prerogatives that the Creatures have not. Celestial Blessedness as much exceeds our most raised thoughts, as God is more glorious in himself than in ⟨p. 388⟩any representations made of him by the shadows of our earthly Imaginations. There is a greater disproportion between the condition of a Saint on Earth and in Heaven, than between the Life of an Infant in the Womb, and of the same person when advanced to the Throne, and attended with the Nobility of a Nation.2 St. John declares, Now we are the Sons of God, but it doth not appear what we shall be. Who knows the full signification of being heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ, of partaking in that glorious Reward which is given to him for his great Services to the Crown of Heaven? Who can tell the weight, the number and measure of that Blessedness? To him that overcomes, saith our Redeemer, will I grant to sit with me in my Throne, even as I also overcame, 3and am set down with my Father in his Throne. We have reason to break forth in the Language of the Psalmist, How great is thy goodness which thou hast laid up for those that fear thee? and supply the defects of our understanding with a Holy admiration, that is the only measure of those things that are above our measure.
The Apostle tells us, Eye hath not seen, nor Ear heard, neither hath it enter'd into the heart of man to conceive what God hath prepared for those that love him. 1All that is beautiful or sweet here, is but a shadow of that Glory, a drop of that vast Ocean of delights. For all that is desirable in the Creatures, and is disperst among them, is united in God as the Original, in an infinite and indeficient manner, with all the Prerogatives that the Creatures have not. Celestial Blessedness as much exceeds our most raised thoughts, as God is more glorious in himself than in