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

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⟩them,) I am the Lord, &c. Levit. 19.12. &c. It's said of Christ, He taught as one having Authority, and not as the Scribes, Matth. 7. ult. He did not beg attention, but enjoin it; nor beseech Obedience, but command it. As when Princes Enact Laws, they do not entreat, but require Obedience at the peril of their Subjects. This is the Word of the Lord, and Thus saith the Lord, and the Mouth of the Lord hath spoken it, is sufficient to awe and require Subjection from all that hear it. God is his own Authority, not so Men or Angels: They speak from God, but he from none but himself. His Word is a Light, Psal. 119.104, 105. that discovers it self; And therefore it is called The Testimony of the Lord, Psal. 19.7. Because it beareth witness to it self, and needeth not testimony from Men or Angels. What the essential Word speaketh, may be spoken of the declarative Word: It receiveth not Testimony from Man, John 5.34. Men need Grounds and Reasons, and Witnesses too, to prove and vouch what they say to be true, and to be so as they speak; but the Word of God is a sufficient authentic Testimony to it ⟨p. 158⟩self; It's his own Proof, because what Truth it self speaks, must of necessity be true.

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 falsly, (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