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A26785	The divinity of the Christian religion, proved by the evidence of reason and divine revelation by William Bates ...	Bates, William, 1625-1699.	1677 (1677)	Wing B1104; ESTC R33149	60,636	228

set all their Affections their Loves Desires Hopes Joys in present perishing things and not in everlasting to come to labour for the Riches of this World as if they were eternal Inhabitants on the Earth and not strangers and pilgrims in the way to Heaven These are worse Enemies of our Saviour than the Heathens that do not know him or the Jews that deny him For wearing the Livery of his Servants they defame his most holy Profession obscure his Glory and blaspheme him in their lives If Infidels that never heard the sound of the Gospel should see their conversation what judgment would they make of the Excellence of Christ and the holiness of his Law They would blaspheme his Goodness without defence Unholy Christians are the most guilty Sinners in the World And their punishment will be heightned accordingly For they exasperate Mercy and make the Blood of Atonement to cry for Vengeance against them If it be extreme perversness to disbelieve the Gospel after so clear a Revelation from God what degree of folly and wickedness is it for those who believe its Truth to contradict the evidence and design of it in their lives as if there were no doubt of its falsness FINIS Books sold by Brabazon Aylmer at the three Pigeons over against the Royal Exchange in Cornhil THe Harmony of the Divine Attributes in the 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 W. Bates D. D. in Quarto Two Sermons of the late Learned Dr. Isaac Barrow D. D. Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty and Master of Trinity Colledg in Cambridg The Reconcilableness of God's Prescience of the Sins of Men with the Wisdom and Sincerity of his Counsels Exhortations and whatsoever other means he uses to prevent them In Octavo ‖ Arist. Mētap Tanta Gentium in rebus frivolis plerunque Religio est Plin. ‖ Magis ex alieno jecore Sapiebant quam ex suo ‖ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Clem. Alex. Protrept Jsa 1. Psal. 50. Psal. 40. Psal. 110. Mat. 22. 42. Heb. 5. 5. * De verit Rel Christ. Nullam Virtus aliam mer cedem laborum periculorumque desiderat praeter hanc laudis gloriae quae quidem detracta quid est quod in hoc tam exiguo vitae curriculo tam brevi tantis nos in laboribus exerceamus Cicer. per Arch. Vereor ne ille plura tribuit virtuti quam natura patiatur Cicer. lib. 4. Acad. Quaest. Titus Imperator febrim nactus cum lectica transferretur suspexisse dicitur dimotis plagulis Coelum multumque Conquestus Eripi sibi vitam immerenti neque enim extare ullum suum factum poenitendum excepto duntaxat uno Sueton. Dulces voluptates Epicurus interdum sic extenuat ut Curium loqui putes interdum ita laudat ut quid praeterea sit bonum neget se posse suspicari Cic. lib. 2. de fin ‖ Quaedam arcana apud se habuisse neque se permittere Omnibus Sympos ‖ Pet. Mart. Hist. Ind. Cum enim ex Pestilenti in salubrem locum corpora aegra translata fuerint à Fontibus salubribus aquarum usus sub ministrabuntur celerius convalescent Ita efficietur ut ex natura loci majores auctasque cum dignitate Divinitas excipiat opiniones Lib. 1. cap. 2. That Eclipse might be caused in some other extraordinary unknown manner * Plin. in Epist. Praevidens Dominus Iesus impios quosdam futuros qui miraculis ejus calumnientur Magicis artibus tribuendo Prophetas ante praemisit Numquid si Magus erat Magicis artibus fecit ut coleretur mortuus Magus erat antequam natus O Homo mortue vermiscendo calumniose Prophetas audi Prop●●tas Lege Tract in Joan. Dan. 9. 26. Zech. 11. 12. Psal. 22. Isa. chap. 52 53. * Philost vit Apoll. lib. 6. Deut. 28. Gen. 49. 10. Deut. 32. 21. ‖ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrys. de laad Paul 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ibid. * Aliquando Pagani faciunt nobis hujusmodi quaestionem cum vident quae scripta sunt sic impleri ut negari omnino non possint Audent ut dicant videstis ita fieri tanquam praedicta sint conscripsistis Serm. 67. Divers Sparsi sunt ubique Judaei portantes codices quibus Christus praedicatur Si enim in uno loco essent terrarum non adjuvarent testimonio praedicationem Evangelii quae fructificat toto orbe terrarum Serm. 67. Div. Ambos inde convinco Judaeum quia id prophetatum et impletum Ego cognovi Paganū quia ego hac non convici Aug. Epist. 5 Volus. Demus Deū aliquid posse quod nos fateamur investigare non posse In talibus rebus tota ratio facti est potentia facientis ‖ Quare quicquam nobis insolitum est quia naturam oculis non ratione comprehendimus nec cogitamus quid illa facere possit sed tantum quid fecerit Natur Quaest. lib. 6. * Aut forte qui verbum est significationem verbi ignoravit et qui veritas est loqui vera nescivit et qui sapientia est in stultiloquio erravit qui virtus est in ea fuit infirmitate ut non possit eloqui quae vellet intelligi Hilar. lib. 8. de Trinit Paulin. Arist. Rhet. ‖ Quae cum ita sint magna videlicet praerogativa de nomine Christianitatis blandiri possumus quia ita agimus ac vivimus ut hoc ipsū quod Christianus populus esse dicimur opprobriū Christi esse videamur * Aestimari de cultoribus suis potest ille qui colitur Quomodo enim bonus Magister est cujus tam malos videmus discipulos 2 Salv. De Gubern lib. 4.

the mournful remembrance of his lost felicity and harden'd in dispair 1. The Christian Religion gives a full account of the depravation and misery of humane Nature in its first Causes The Heathens felt an insuperable permanent discord in Man between the upper Faculties and the lower Appetites but were utterly ignorant of the Cause of it Now the Scripture reveals that Man in the original frame of his Nature was regular and holy a piece of workmanship worthy the Perfections of his Creator but he abus'd his liberty to break the first Command which was given for the tryal of his Obedience He yeelded to the inticements of a fallen Spirit who was a Liar that he might be a Murderer and by his revolt from God lost his Holiness and made a forfeiture of all the priviledges of his happy State Thus the Fountain was tainted and who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean By the offence of one Judgment came upon all to condemnation Every Man is now born a slave of Sin a tributary of Death From hence it follows that the most deformed Monsters in villany the most fierce enemies of Religion serve to confirm its Truth as well as the most eminent Saints These shew the vertue of Redemption by the sanctity of their Lives the other the corruption of Nature by their obstinate wickedness 2. The Christian Religion instructs us that God sent his own Son into the World in the humane nature that he might offer up himself an expiatory Sacrifice for the Sins of Men to restore them to his Favour This is a Mystery above the flight of any created understanding yet 't is so temper'd and fram'd there is such an uniformity of Wisdom in all its parts it presents such a full and glorious Image of the Deity in all his perfections that it causes the highest admiration and commands belief in those who duly consider it The whole oeconomy becoms the Majesty the Goodness the Holiness and Justice of God His supreme Majesty appears in his pardoning the guilty for the sufferings of another For this is an infallible proof that he is above Law And his inconceiveable Mercy is the only principle and fountain of our Pardon For Man was absolutely uncapable to merit the Favour or to repair the Honour of God so injur'd by his inexcusable disobedience Repentance cannot produce such great effects What merit can there be in the sorrowful sense and confession of that which deserves Eternal Death Besides an extream hatred of Sin an ardent love of Holiness serious Resolutions to follow it what ever it costs which is the best part of Repentance was due to God before the commission of Sin therefore cannot be satisfaction So that pure Mercy is the cause of our forgiveness Moreover God to glorifie his Holiness in declaring his vehement and irreconcileable hatred to Sin and to preserve the Rights of Justice was pleas'd to appoint an all-sufficient Mediator capable to offer himself an expiatory Sacrifice for Sin and to give an infinite value to it This was done by the Incarnation of the Son of God The Flesh and Bloud he took of our humanity was made Divine by union with him and offer'd on the Cross was full payment for our offences Thus Justice and Mercy triumph with equal Glory being equally Victorious For what is more honourable to Justice than satisfaction equal to the offence And what can more commend Mercy than the most free and undeserved bestowing the high price requisit for it Thus the Gospel affords to us a just and compleat Idea of the Divine excellencies in the Redemption of Man The design manner and the effect are most worthy of God Where might such a contrivance of Wisdom be fram'd but in the Divine mind where could such an excess of compassion be found but in the heart of God Thus it became God who is Love to magnifie his Love to advance his dearest Glory and overcome our guilty disaffection to himself For while terrible apprehensions of the Deity possess the heart 't is frozen with a stony rigor which the hope of Mercy only can dissolve Thus it appears that the Doctrine of the Gospel is worthy of all acceptation 2. The Christian Religion sets before us a rule of life pur and perspicuous in nothing superfluous or defective but comprehending the intire duty of Man This was necessary in order to his recovery For in his fallen state the Law of Nature is active in some things but dormant in others The best Morals of the Heathens are dasht with impure permissions But the Grace of God that bringeth Salvation teaches us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts we should live soberly righteously and godly in this present World It forbids all Sin in all its degrees not only the consummation of it in the act but the first conception of it in the thoughts and desires Which argues that the Lawgiver was more than a Man having an inspection into the heart which is only visible to God and only accountable to him It teaches us to worship God the supream and purest Spirit with the highest esteem and with purity of affections It enjoyns all relative duties to Men in a most perfect manner What things we would have others to do unto us supposing our selves in their circumstances we are obliged to do to them This one Law of Christ eminently contains all others that respect society This is the primitive rule of commerce and directs our carriage towards all persons with justice and equity kindness and decence The Gospel also with respect to our selves gives a perfect rule to make us holy and blessed It teaches us the contempt of the World the valuation of Heaven the restraint of corrupted sense and the Angelical exercise of our affections In short it commands the practice of all Vertues and that we should aspire to the most eminent degrees in them But especially it enjoyns humility and love to God the foundation and perfection of all vertues of which the precepts of Philosophy take little notice Humility that is a lively deep sense that nothing is properly ours but sin and misery arises from the consideration of our absolute dependance upon God for our being and all the benefits we enjoy in Nature or Grace From hence gratitude springs 'T is most reasonable that our lives should be a continual expression of Obedience from a noble and free principle of love to God and be design'd for his Honour and that for all our advantages temporal or spiritual we should only glory in him In this Philosophers were very defective They consider'd Man with respect to himself or to other Creatures without him and accordingly the product of their Precepts was a certain moral honesty to do nothing unbecoming the reasonable Nature nor to break the civil Peace But they did not consider duly his relation to the Creator in whom he lives moves and has his being from whom proceeds every good and perfect gift And by