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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.
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Who could have imagined, that God should become Man, infinite become finite, the Creator a Creature; the Father of Spirits become Flesh, and the Lord of Life be put to Death? Who could conceive, that he who made all things of nothing, should be made himself of a Woman, made by him: That he whom the Heavens, and Heaven of Heavens cannot contain, should be contained in the narrow Womb of a Woman: That the only Bread of Life should be hungry, the only Water of Life be thirsty; the only Rest be weary, the only Ease be pained, and the only Joy and Consolation be sorrowful, exceeding sorrowful unto Death?
Who could have imagin'd, that God should become Man, infinite become finite, the Creator a Creature; the Father of Spirits become Flesh, and the Lord of Life be put to Death? Who could conceive, that he who made all things of nothing, should be made himself of a Woman, made by him: That he whom the Heavens, and Heaven of Heavens cannot contain, should be contained in the narrow Womb of a Woman: That the onely Bread of Life should be hungry, the onely Water of Life be thirsty; the onely Rest be weary, the onely Ease be pained, and the onely Joy and Consolation be sorrowful, exceeding sorrowful unto Death?
Who could have imagined, that one, yea millions should be rich by another's poverty, filled by another's emptiness, be exalted by another's disgrace, healed by another's wounds, eased by another's Pains, be absolved by another's Condemnation, ⟨p. 171⟩and live eternally by another's temporal Death? Who could have imagined, that infinite Justice and infinite Mercy should be made fast Friends, and fully satisfied by one and the same action; that the greatest fury and the greatest favour, the greatest hatred and the greatest love should concur in, and be manifested by one and the same thing? Could Men or Angels speak such Mysteries? surely No. Several Mysteries in the Scriptures were hid from whole Ages and Generations of Men; Which in former Ages was not made known to the Children of Men, Eph. 3.5. No nor to Angels neither, Verse 10. To the intent that now unto Principalities and Powers, might be made by the Church the manifold Wisdom of God.