and so in that, Deut. 10.17. For the Lord your God is ⟨p. 14⟩God of Gods, 1and Lord of Lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward. God is the original cause of all greatness; all that greatness that is in any created beings, whether they are Angels, or men, is from God; all their greatness is but a beam of his Sun, a drop out of his Sea, a mite out of his Treasury. 2God is a God of that infinite greatness, that he fills heaven and earth with his presence, he is every where, and yet circumscribed to no place, he is in all things, and without all things, and above all things, and this speaks out his immensity. Job had a very large portion, before God made a breach upon him, 3He had seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great household; but at last God gives him twice as much as he had first, 4for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses. Cattle ⟨p. 15⟩are only instanced in, because the wealth of that Country consisted especially in cattle; but yet doubtless Job had a great many other good things, as goods, lands, possessions, and stately habitations; but what is all this to a Saints portion? certainly, had not Job had God for his portion, he had been but a rich fool, a golden beast, notwithstanding all the great things that God had heaped upon him. And so Ahasuerus had a very large portion, 5he reigned from India unto Ethiopia over an hundred and seven and twenty Provinces, but what were all his Provinces; but as so many handfuls of dust, in comparison of the Saints portion? The whole Turkish Empire, saith Luther, is but a crust that God throws to a dog: had a man all the world for his portion, it would be but a poor pittance. Nebuchadnezzar had a very great portion, Dan. 5.18, 19. O thou King, the most high God gave thy father Nebuchadnezzar a Kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour. ⟨p. 16⟩And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, Nations, and languages trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew, and whom he would he kept alive, and whom he would he set up, and whom he would he put down. And so in that, Jer. 27.5, 6, 7, 8.
and so in that, Deut. 10.17. For the Lord your God is ⟨p. 14⟩God of Gods, 1and Lord of Lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward. God is the original cause of all greatness; all that greatness that is in any created beings, whether they are Angels, or men, is from God; all their greatnesse is but a beam of his Sun, a drop out of his Sea, a mite out of his Treasury. 2God is a God of that infinite greatnesse, that he fills heaven and earth with his presence, he is every where, and yet circumscribed to no place, he is in all things, and without all things, and above all things, and this speaks out his immensity. Job had a very large portion, before God made a breach upon him, 3He had seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great houshold; but at last God gives him twice as much as he had first, 4for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses. Cattle ⟨p. 15⟩are onely instanced in, because the wealth of that Countrey consisted especially in cattel; but yet doubtlesse Job had a great many other good things, as goods, lands, possessions, and stately habitations; but what is all this to a Saints portion? certainly, had not Job had God for his portion, he had been but a rich fool, a golden beast, notwithstanding all the great things that God had heaped upon him. And so Ahasuerus had a very large portion, 5he reigned from India unto Ethiopia over an hundred and seven and twenty Provinces, but what were all his Provinces; but as so many handfuls of dust, in comparison of the Saints portion? The whole Turkish Empire, saith Luther, is but a crust that God throws to a dog: had a man all the world for his portion, it would be but a poor pittance. Nebuchadnezzar had a very great portion, Dan. 5.18, 19. O thou King, the most high God gave thy father Nebuchadnezzar a Kingdome, and majesty, and glory, and honour.
- 1In Daniel God is called Ell Elim, the mighty of mighties.In Daniel God is called El Elim, the mighty of mighties.
- 2Psal. 139.
- 3Job 1.3.
- 4Job 42.12.
- 5Esth. 1.1, 2.
