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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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The greatness of any loss is to be measured by the excellency and value of that which we lose; therefore if God be so incomparable in all perfections, the loss of Sinners, who lose this God totally and eternally, must be an incomparable loss. As there is no gain equal to the gain of a God, all other gains are but painted Babies or Butterflies to this; so there is no loss equal to the loss of a God, all other losses are but Bug-bears to fright Children with to this; this is a loss with a witness, a loss which nothing can countervail, supply, or make up, in which all that is good is gone for ever. As Micah said to the Israelites, when they asked him what he ailed to cry out so, Ye have taken away my God, and what have I more? Judg. 18.22. So will the Sinner in the other world, screech horribly, and complain heavily of ⟨p. 201⟩his deceitful Flesh (which now he makes such provision for) Thou hast taken away my God, and what have I more? I am poor, a beggar, nothing worth, worse than naught, wholly ruined, utterly undone by thee, I have lost my God, and with him all that is good.
The greatness of any loss is to be measured by the excellency and value of that which we lose; therefore if God be so incomparable in all perfections, the loss of Sinners, who lose this God totally and eternally, must be an incomparable loss. As there is no gain equal to the gain of a God, all other gains are but painted Babies or Butterflies to this; so there is no loss equal to the loss of a God, all other losses are but Bug-bears to fright Children with to this; this is a loss with a witness, a loss which nothing can countervail, supply, or make up, in which all that is good is gone for ever. As Micah said to the Israelites, when they asked him what he ayled to cry out so, Ye have taken away my God, and what have I more? Judg. 18.22. So will the Sinner in the other world, screech horribly, and complain heavily of ⟨p. 201⟩his deceitful Flesh (which now he makes such provision for) Thou hast taken away my God, and what have I more? I am poor, a beggar, nothing worth, worse than naught, wholly ruined, utterly undone by thee, I have lost my God, and with him all that is good.