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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.
This will more fully appear by the convincing declaration of God's displeasure against it, in the dreadful effects that ensued. The punishment of Man was of the same date with his Sin. Immediately after his Treason against Heaven, he made ⟨p. 32⟩a deadly forfeiture of his Original Righteousness and Felicity.
This will more fully appear by the convincing declaration of God's displeasure against it, in the dreadful effects that ensued. The punishment of Man was of the same date with his Sin. Immediatly after his Treason against Heaven, he made ⟨p. 32⟩a deadly forfeiture of his Original Righteousness and Felicity.
1. He lost his Original Righteousness; which we may consider under the notion of the purity and beauty of the Soul, or of its dominion and liberty, in opposition to which, Sin is represented in the Scripture by loathsome Deformity and Servitude.
1. He lost his Original Righteousness; which we may consider under the notion of the purity and beauty of the Soul, or of its dominion and liberty, in opposition to which, Sin is represented in the Scripture by loathsom Deformity and Servitude.
1. His Soul degenerated from its purity; the Faculties remained, but the moral perfections were lost, wherein the brightness of God's Image was most conspicuous. How is Man disfigured by his Fall? How is he transformed in an instant from the Image of God, into the Image of the Devil? He is defiled with the filthiness of flesh and spirit; he is ashamed at the sight of his own nakedness that reproached him for his crime; but the most shameful was that of the Soul: The one might be covered with leaves, the other nothing could conceal. To see a Face of exquisite Beauty devoured by a Cancer, how doth it move compassion; but were the Natural Eye heightened to that clearness and perspicacity, as to discover the deformity which Sin hath brought upon the Soul, how would it strike with grief, horror and aversation.