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

1. Of the great venom and malignity of Sin, because it is an injury to so great, so glorious, so incomparable a Being. The higher and better any Object is, the baser and the worse is that action which is injurious to it: To throw dirt on Sack-cloth is not so bad as to throw dirt on Scarlet or fine Linen. To make a flaw in a pebble or common stone, is nothing to the making a flaw in a Diamond or precious stone. Those opprobrious Speeches, or injurious Actions, against an ordinary person, which are but a breach of the good behaviour, and bear but a common Action at Law; if against a ⟨p. 183⟩Prince may be high Treason, because of the excellency of his Place, and Majesty of his Person: The worth and dignity of the Object, doth exceedingly heighten and aggravate the Offence. How horrid then is Sin, and of how heinous a nature, when it offendeth and opposeth not Kings, the highest of men; not Angels, the highest of Creatures: But God, the highest of Beings, the incomparable God, to whom Kings and Angels; yea, the whole Creation is less then nothing. We take the size of Sin too low, and short, and wrong, when we measure it by the wrong it doth to our selves, or our Families, or our Neighbours, or the Nation wherein we live; indeed herein somewhat of its evil and mischief doth appear, but to take its full length and proportion, we must consider the wrong it doth to this great, this glorious, this incomparable God: Sin is incomparably malignant, because the God principally injured by it, is incomparably excellent. It's one thing to displease and offend man, a poor slimy worm, a mean shallow Creature, of the same make and mould with our selves, and another thing to displease and offend God, that unconceivable immense Being: If one man sin against ⟨p. 184⟩another, the Judge shall judge him, (an humane Judge may undertake to determine and comprise Offences between them that stand upon the same level) but if a man sin against the Lord, who shall entreat for him? 1 Sam. 2.25. Here the case is altered, here is a pitiful finite Creature offending an infinite Creator; what man dares arbitrate this difference, nay who can intercede and interpose between these too?

1. Of the great venome and malignity of Sin, because it is an injury to so great, so glorious, so incomparable a Being. The higher and better any Object is, the baser and the worse is that action which is injurious to it: To throw dirt on Sack-cloth is not so bad as to throw dirt on Scarlet or fine Linnen. To make a flaw in a pebble or common stone, is nothing to the making a flaw in a Diamond or precious stone. Those opprobrious Speeches, or injurious Actions, against an ordinary person, which are but a breach of the good behaviour, and bear but a common Action at Law; if against a