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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 15: God is incomparable in his Word: In its Purity, Mysteries, Prophesies.
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.
CHAP. XV. God is incomparable in his Word: In its Purity, Mysteries, Prophesies.
2. God is incomparable in the matter of his speech, as well as in his manner of speaking: If you consider the Purity, Mysteries or Predictions thereof.
2. GOd is incomparable in the matter of his speech, as well as in his manner of speaking: If you consider the Purity, Mysteries or Predictions thereof.
1. The Purity of its Precepts: His ⟨p. 166⟩Word is the most pure, perfect, exact Rule of Righteousness that is imaginable: It commandeth good, nothing but good, and all good, at all times; It forbiddeth evil, all evil, and nothing but evil, and always: The Commandment is holy, and the Law is holy, just, and good, Rom. 7.12. Holy, as it is a Copy of the Divine Will; Just, as it is correspondent to the highest reason; Good, as it is most beneficial to the rational Creature. It is holy, as it relates our Duty to God; Just, as it respects our Duty to our Neighbours; Good, as it concerns our Duty towards our Selves. It is Holy, as consecrated to the Service of God; Just, as a transcript of the pure Law of Nature; Good, as it is the measure and standard of all goodness in the Creatures. It is Holy, in what it enjoins us to do; Just, in what it forbids us to do, and good in both. What Laws in the World are in any degree comparable to the Laws of God? The Mahometan Laws which have gained so much credit in the greatest part almost of the known World, are impure Laws, allowing Revenge, Polygamy, and commanding Slaughters, ⟨p. 167⟩