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

1. Their misery consisteth partly in this, that they must depart for ever from this incomparable God, Math. 7.23. Depart from me ye workers of iniquity. Math. 25.41. Depart from me ye cursed. O how dreadful a sound will the word Depart make in the Sinners ears? yea, what a deep wound will it make in his heart? Depart from me; Ah! whether do they go, that go from God? To depart from riches and honours, and carnal comforts for ever, will affect and afflict him to purpose who placeth his happiness in them; to lose health, and liberty, and friends, and relations for ever, is no inconsiderable loss to him that knoweth not where to have them made up. To lose the Ordinances of God, seasons of Grace, the tenders, entreaties, invitations of the Gospel for ever, is such a loss that a sensualist is uncapable of conceiving the greatness of. To lose the Communion of perfect Spirits, the company of glorious Angels, the blessed exercises of the Heavenly Host for ever, will not a little affright and amaze, and vex and terrify the wicked, when they once come to have their eyes opened, and their ⟨p. 199⟩Consciences awakened in the other world: But to depart from the incomparable God for ever, to lose the only Paradise of pleasures, the only fountain of living Waters, the only author of true felicity; to lose the unsearchable Mine of Riches, the inexhaustible well of Salvation, the inestimable Sun of Righteousness; to lose the dearest Father, the wisest Guide, the strongest Shield, the sweetest Love, the closest Friend, the tenderest Mercy, the richest Grace, the highest Honour, the only happiness; to lose the Lord of Life, the Lord of Glory, the Lord of Lords; to lose the God of Hope, the God of all Grace, the God of all Consolation, the God of Peace, the God of Gods, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the incomparable God; and to lose him totally and for ever, is the loss of all losses, is such a loss as no tongue can declare, no mind can conceive, is such a loss as never was the like before it, nor shall, nor can be the like after it. He that hath lost God, hath nothing left that is good, he hath lost all that was worth having or saving. Lord whether shall we go, if we go from thee? thou hast the words of eternal life, Joh. 6.68