A26796:78
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.
4. The visible Contempt of God's Majesty, with a slighting his Justice. For the Prohibition was so ⟨p. 27⟩express and terrible, that till he had cast off all respects to the Lawgiver, 'twas not possible he should venture to disobey him. The Sin of Adam is therefore called by the Apostle, Disobedience;1 as eminently such, it being the first and highest instance of it. 'Twas the profanation of Paradise it self, the place of God's special presence. There he fell, and trampled on God's Command before his face. What just cause of astonishment is it, that a reasonable creature should bid open Defiance to the Author of its Life! That a little breathing dust should contemn its Creator! That Man should prefer servile compliance to the will of the Tempter, before free subjection to his Father and Sovereign! To depose God and place the Devil in his Throne, was double Treason, and provoked his infinite jealousy.
4. The visible Contempt of God's Majesty, with a slighting his Justice. For the Prohibition was so ⟨p. 27⟩express and terrible, that till he had cast off all respects to the Lawgiver, 'twas not possible he should venture to disobey him. The Sin of Adam is therefore called by the Apostle, Disobedience;1 as eminently such, it being the first and highest instance of it. 'Twas the profanation of Paradise it self, the place of God's special presence. There he fell, and trampled on God's Command before his face. What just cause of astonishment is it, that a reasonable creature should bid open Defiance to the Author of its Life! That a little breathing dust should contemn its Creator! That Man should prefer servile compliance to the will of the Tempter, before free subjection to his Father and Sovereign! To depose God and place the Devil in his Throne, was double Treason, and provok'd his infinite jealousie.