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

None beside God had pity enough for mans misery, or Wisdom enough to find out a Remedy, or Power enough for his Recovery.

None beside God had pitty enough for mans misery, or Wisdom enough to find out a Remedy, or Power enough for his Recovery.

None had pity enough for mans Misery; Boundless Misery called for boundless Mercy; One deep for another: But where is such Mercy to be found among the Creatures? Man was a Child of Wrath, had plunged himself into an Ocean of Evils and Fury, and this required an Ocean of Love and Pity, but Creatures at most had but drops; but the Creator had infinite Grace for infinite Guilt, and infinite Mercy for infinite Misery, Ezek. 16.5, 6, 7, 8. In the day of thy Nativity, thou wast cast out, to the loathing of thy Person; thy Navel was not cut, neither wast thou salted with Salt, nor washed with Water. Here is misery indeed, but what help or compassion from Creatures? truly none: No Eye pitied thee, to do any of these things unto thee; (who then had pity enough?) Then I passed by thee, and saw thee in thy Blood; Then was my time of Love, and I bid thee live; yea, when thou wast in thy Blood, I said unto thee live. God hath great Mercy for great Misery, Eph. 2.4, 5. Abundant Mercy for abundant Misery, 1 Peter 1.3. A Plaster altogether as broad and as large as the Sore, John 3.16. 1 John 4.9. Eph. 3.19. ⟨p. 126⟩Therefore the Holy Ghost observeth,