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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.
1. They were trained up in it from their Infant state. Now the first persuasions of the mind though grossly false, and ill habits do strangely captivate, and are with difficulty removed: because the concurrence of those faculties is requisite; which are under the Power of Error and Vice. No Tyrant is so exactly obeyed as custom, especially in things esteemed Sacred: for the conceit that the service is pleasing to the Deity, renders men incapable to believe any thing, that contradicts it. 'Twas as hard to make the Gentiles forsake the Religion they received from their Birth, and to loose the impressions made in their tender Age, as to make the Africans change their Skin, and become fair, and the Furop•ans to turn black: for the tincture which the Religion practised in each Country conveys to the Souls of Men, is as deep and lasting, as that which the Sun impresses upon their bodies, according to the diversity of its Aspects.
1. They were trained up in it from their Infant state. Now the first perswasions of the mind though grosly false, and ill habits do strangly captivate, and are with difficulty removed: because the concurrence of those faculties is requisite; which are under the Power of Errour and Vice. No Tyrant is so exactly obey'd as custome, especially in things esteem'd Sacred: for the conceit that the service is pleasing to the Deity, renders men incapable to believe any thing, that contradicts it. 'Twas as hard to make the Gentiles forsake the Religion they received from their Birth, and to loose the impressions made in their tender Age, as to make the Affricans change their Skin, and become fair, and the Furop•ans to turn black: for the tincture which the Religion practised in each Country conveys to the Souls of Men, is as deep and lasting, as that which the Sun impresses upon their bodies, according to the diversity of its Aspects.
2. The Pagan Religion was derived through a long succession from their Progenitors.1