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A treatise of the incomparableness of God in his being, attributes, works and word…
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 ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1672
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Treatise › Chapter 11: God incomparable in his Works, Creation and Providence.
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.
It's impossible for the Creation, or any part of it, to bear up a moment, if God should forget it, and deny his actual concurrence to it. It doth constantly depend on God, as the Figure of the Seal imprinted on the Water, which being with-drawn, the impression is instantly defaced. God is to the World, as the Soul to the Body, which alone can actuate and move it, without which it cannot stir at all, but is as a dead Corps.
2. For Gubernation, He governeth all, and neither Men nor Angels can govern themselves. The great Family of the World would soon lose its beauty; yea its being, if he did not maintain its harmony and concord, by guiding them in their motions, keeping them in their several stations, and directing them to their ends: The Lord hath established his Throne in the Heavens, and his Kingdom ruleth over all, Psal. 103.19. One Creature would most cruelly devour another; Beasts would prey on Men: All Creatures would become their own Enemies and Executioners; The whole ⟨p. 115⟩Earth would be turned into an Aceldama, and a Golgatha, a Field of Blood, and Place of Skulls; yea, into an Hell, if he did not order, and guide, and govern all. Treasons, Incest, Slaughters, Parricides, would over-whelm the whole World, pervert the order of Nature, turn all into Confusion and Destruction; if he did not keep the Reins in his own Hands, and govern all things, in every of their actions, every moment.
2. For Gubernation, He governeth all, and neither Men nor Angels can govern themselves. The great Family of the World would soon lose its beauty; yea its being, if he did not maintain its harmony and concord, by guiding them in their motions, keeping them in their several stations, and directing them to their ends: The Lord hath established his Throne in the Heavens, and his Kingdom ruleth over all, Psal. 103.19. One Creature would most cruelly devour another; Beasts would prey on Men: All Creatures would become their own Enemies and Executioners; The whole