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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
1. He is incomparable in the manner of his speaking.
1. He speaketh authoritatively, and in his own Name: Good Men and good Angels may command, but it must be (as subordinate Magistrates) in the Name and Authority of their Prince and Sovereign; but God commandeth in his own Name and Authority: God gives Authentity to what-ever he speaks, and he speaks with Authority when he speaks. God speaks as one that hath Right and Power to Command, and as one that, upon his own account, expecteth to be obeyed: I am the Lord, is enough to warrant Obedience to the whole Decalogue, Thou shalt have no other God; Thou shalt not make to thy self any graven Image, &c. For I am the Lord thy God.
1. He speaketh authoritatively, and in his own Name: Good Men and good Angels may command, but it must be (as subordinate Magistrates) in the Name and Authority of their Prince and Soveraign; but God commandeth in his own Name and Authority: God gives Authentity to what-ever he speaks, and he speaks with Authority when he speaks. God speaks as one that hath Right and Power to Command, and as one that, upon his own account, expecteth to be obeyed: I am the Lord, is enough to warrant Obedience to the whole Decalogue, Thou shalt have no other God; Thou shalt not make to thy self any graven Image, &c. For I am the Lord thy God.
His Authority is the highest, the greatest reason of any Precept, and the strongest warrant for Obedience; Therefore Thou shalt not swear by my Name falsely, (why?) I am the Lord: Thou shalt not curse the Deaf, nor lay a stumbling block before the Blind, (why not? the Deaf cannot hear if I do curse them, nor the Blind see if I do lay a stumbling-block before ⟨p. 157⟩