A guide to go to GodA guide to goe to God

Such is the surpassing excellency of God,¹ such the brightness of his Majesty, such the absolute supremacy of his Sovereignty, such the omnipotency of his power, such his all-sufficiency, as man compared to God is^f but dust and ashes, ^gvile, ^hwretched and miserable: yeaⁱ All nations before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him less then nothing. What man is, he is of God. God is our Creator, we the work of his hands. He our Sovereign,⁶ we his subjects. Betwixt man and man there is no such difference. All, in relation to God the high Lord, are fellow servants. Though in a mutual relation one to another there be some differences, as betwixt Magistrates and Subjects, Masters and Servants, Parents and Children, yet are those differences but external, and temporal. External, in the affairs of this world, for outward order and government. (^k In Jesus Christ all are one) Temporal, for the time of this world. (After this life^l the servant is free from his Master. ^mAll are as Angels,) yea all children of Adam, as in the points of their humiliation they are from the same mould, of the same corrupt nature, subject to the same infirmities, at length brought to the same end, so in the points of their exaltation, they are all (I speak^* of the several sorts and kinds of men not of every particular person) they are all made after the same Image, redeemed by the same price, partakers of the same grace, and heirs of the same inheritance. If then God, the Creator of all, and Supreme Lord over all, who standeth in no need of any thing that man can do, nor can reap any benefit from man, who never wronged any, nor needeth forgiveness, if God forgive man,