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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.
2. The Apostle testifies that the Israelites drank of that Spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ. That the Miracle was mysterious is evident from the circumstances related of it.1 When the Israelites were in great distress for water, The Lord said to Moses, I will stand before thee there upon the Rock in Horeb, and thou shalt smite the Rock, 2and there shall come water out of it, that the People may drink. If there had been no other design but the relieving their necessity, that might have been supplied by rain from Heaven; or if only to give a visible effect of the Divine Power, that had been discovered in causing new Springs to rise from the Earth, or the Command of God had been sufficient to strike the Rock; But he went to it to signify the respect it had to himself. He was the Son of God that spake to Moses, and conducted the People: For this reason He is styled the Angel of Gods presence, not with respect to his Nature, but Offices.
2. The Apostle testifies that the Israelites drank of that Spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ. That the Miracle was mysterious is evident from the circumstances related of it.1 When the Israelites were in great distress for water, The Lord said to Moses, I will stand before thee there upon the Rock in Horeb, and thou shalt smite the Rock, 2and there shall come water out of it, that the People may drink. If there had been no other design but the relieving their necessity, that might have been supplied by rain from Heaven; or if only to give a visible effect of the Divine Power, that had been discovered in causing new Springs to rise from the Earth, or the Command of God had been sufficient to strike the Rock; But he went to it to signifie the respect it had to himself. He was the Son of God that spake to Moses, and conducted the People: For this reason He is stiled the Angel of Gods presence, not with respect to his Nature, but Offices.