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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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3. The consequents of his Coming are foretold.
1. That the Jews should reject him because of the meanness of his appearance. They neither understood the Greatness and Majesty,1 nor the Abasement of the Messiah described in their Prophesies: not his Greatness, that the Son of David was his Lord, that he was before Abraham, who rejoiced to his Day: for they did not believe the Eternity of his Divine Nature, They did not understand his humiliation to Death: Therefore 'twas objected by them that the Messiah remains for ever, and this Person saith he shall die. They fancied a carnal Messiah shining with Worldly pomp, accompanied with thundering legions, to deliver them from Temporal Servitude, so that when they saw him without form and comeliness, and that no Beauty was in him to make him desirable, they hid their Faces from him, they despised and esteemed him not. Thus by their obstinate refusal of the Messiah, they really and visibly fulfilled the Prophecies concerning him.
1. That the Jews should reject him because of the meanness of his appearance. They neither understood the Greatness and Majesty,1 nor the Abasement of the Messiah described in their Prophesies: not his Greatness, that the Son of David was his Lord, that he was before Abraham, who rejoyced to his Day: for they did not believe the Eternity of his Divine Nature, They did not understand his humiliation to Death: Therefore 'twas objected by them that the Messiah remains for ever, and this Person saith he shall dy. They fancied a carnal Messiah shining with Worldly pomp, accompanied with thundring legions, to deliver them from Temporal Servitude, so that when they saw him without form and comeliness, and that no Beauty was in him to make him desireable, they hid their Faces from him, they despised and esteemed him not. Thus by their obstinate refusal of the Messiah, they really and visibly fulfil'd the Prophecies concerning him.