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

Reader, if thou livest without God, ponder, O ponder in the midst of all thy gettings what thou art loosing; yea, what thou shalt loose (if thou dost not return) for ever and ever. Did the Disciples weep and wail, that they should see the face of a good man no more on earth, Sorrowing most of all, for the words that he spake unto them, that they should see his face no more, Acts 20.38. And dost thou think it will not fill thy heart with sorrow, and cut it with anguish, to hear the blessed God, the incomparable God say to thee, Sinner, farewell, farewell for ever, thou shalt see my face no more for ever? Believe it, those words will sound more dolefully in thine ears, than thou art now aware of; they will be a Passing Bell to all thy hopes, and joys, and comforts, and delights; they will be a knell to Toll the Death and Burial of whatsoever may be refreshing and reviving to thee, of all thine ease, and rest, and liberty, ⟨p. 202⟩and peace, and health, and strength, and friends, and relations, and all that may in the least conduce to thy comfort or happiness. Now possibly thou canst be merry enough without God, thou hadst rather have his room than his company, preferrest a life without him, before a life with him; and sayest unto him, Depart from me, I desire not the knowledge of thy ways, Job 21.14. And the reason of this Atheism and Profaneness, is thine ignorance; thou knowest not what a fountain of life, what bowels of love, what an hive of sweetness, what an ocean of happiness the blessed incomparable God is, neither believest what Scripture speaks hereof: but when once thou enterest into the other world, and hast lost this God irrecoverably, thou shalt know what thou hast lost; but then, if ever, that saying of the wise man will be verified, He that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow, Eccles. 1.18. And then thou shalt believe the truth of the glass of Scripture in its representations of the beautiful face of God, though thy faith will be the faith of a Devil, to thy terror, and torment. Ah Sinner, when thou shalt know and believe what a vast treasure, what a River of pleasure, ⟨p. 203⟩