A treatise of the incomparableness of God in his being, attributes, works and word…

Name: A treatise of the incomparableness of God in his being, attributes, works and word…
Author: George Swinnock

A treatise of the incomparableness of God in his being, attributes, works and word opened and applied / by Geo. Swinnocke ...A treatise of the incomparableness of God in his being, attributes, works and word opened and applyed / by Geo. Swinnocke ...

George Swinnock 1627–1673London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1672

[16], 304 p. · 63k words · Wing S6282 · ESTC R1063

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Treatise › Chapter 9: God incomparable in his Mercy and Patience.

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Mercy is the Joy and Pleasure of God: Hence he is said to have a Mercy-Seat, and to have a Throne of Grace, Heb. 9.5. Sitting is a posture of Ease and Rest, but he riseth to execute Justice, Psal. 68.1. ⟨p. 91⟩He doth rest in his Love, Ephes. 3.17. Mercy is the Glory and Honour of God. When Moses desired to see the Glory of God, Exod. 33.18. The Lord proclaims, The Lord God gracious, merciful, Exod. 34.6, 7. When God promiseth to do great things for his People, That he will give them Health, abundance of Peace, cleanse them from all their Filthiness, and pardon all their Iniquities, Jer. 33.7, 8, 9. He gives us the fruit of it, verse 9. And it shall be to me for a Name of Joy, a Praise and Glory before all Nations. His Mercy is his Riches, his Treasure; Hence he is said to be Rich in mercy, Eph. 2.4.

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God is merciful in all he doth, universally merciful: All his ways are Mercy and Truth, Psal. 25.10. The whole World is a Volume written within and without with Characters of Mercy. He is merciful to all Men; Psal. 145.9. Showeth mercy to thousands, Exod. 20.6.

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CHAP. X. God incomparable in his Attributes, as they are from him, as they are his Essence, as they are all one in him, as they are in him in an infinite manner.