A26796:754
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.
1. Because the performance of them was one of the characters of the promised Messiah. For this reason when two of Johns Disciples came to inquire whether he were the expected Prophet, he returns this answer to the question,1 Go and show John those things which ye do hear and see, the Blind receive their Sight, and the Lame walk, the Lepers are cleansed, and the Deaf hear, the Dead are raised up, and the poor have the Gospel preached to them. Thus he described his Office, and verified the Commission he had from God, by representing his Miracles in the Words of the Prophecy.2
1. Because the performance of them was one of the characters of the promised Messiah. For this reason when two of Johns Disciples came to inquire whether he were the expected Prophet, he returns this answer to the question,1 Go and shew John those things which ye do hear and see, the Blind receive their Sight, and the Lame walk, the Lepers are cleansed, and the Deaf hear, the Dead are raised up, and the poor have the Gospel preach'd to them. Thus he described his Office, and verified the Commission he had from God, by representing his Miracles in the Words of the Prophecy.2
2. Our Saviour came to alter the Religion of the Jews that had been confirmed by many illustrious Miracles, therefore to assure them that he was Authorised from Heaven, he wrought such and so many, that for their greatness, clearness and number exceeded all that were done before his coming. Our Saviour tells the Jews, If I had not done among them the Works which none other man did, they had not had sin: that is, in rejecting him. For if he had exercised only a Power like unto that of Moses and the Prophets, in his Miraculous Actions, they had been obliged to have honoured him as one of their rank, but not to have attributed an incomparable Dignity to him. But he did those which neither Moses nor the Prophets had performed, and in those that had been done, Christ excelled them in the manner of doing them. This the Jews could not contradict, and from hence their infidelity was made culpable.