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

1. Study the knowledge of this God, who is so incomparable. We are all ambitious to be acquainted with persons that are eminent and excellent in place, or power, or parts, or piety, and judge it our interest, and an honour to us so to be. If we could hear of one as strong as Sampson, whom no cords could hold, who could slay hundreds with a Jaw-bone; or of one as old as Methuselah, who could tell us what was done in many Centuries of years; or of one as wise as Solomon, who could speak to the nature of all creatures, and answer the hardest Questions we could put to him; or of one as Holy as Adam in innocency, or the elect Angels, who never broke the law of their Maker, but were as pure and perfect as when they came immediately out of his hands: How should we throng, and thrust, ⟨p. 238⟩and crowd to such men? what pains should we take? what cost should we be at to obtain the favour and honour of their acquaintance? Surely (we should think) we could never view them enough, or value them enough, or know enough of them, or discourse enough with them: But alas, what are such men (if we could find them in the world) to the blessed God? what motes, what drops, what poor pitiful Nothings? what is a strong Sampson to the Almighty God, but as straw, as chaff, as rotten wood, as all weakness? what is the Age of Methuselah to the duration of the eternal God (to whose Age Millions of years add not a moment) but as a minute, as nothing? Psal. 39.5. What is the wisdom of Solomon to all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, which are in the only wise God, but a curious web of folly? Coloss. 2.9. What is the holiness of an Angel to the holiness of God, but as a candle to the Sun, yea, as perfect night and darkness to the Noon-day? O therefore, how shouldst thou labour to know this God? how industrious shouldst thou be to be acquainted with him? When the Queen of Sheba had heard of the extraordinary ⟨p. 239⟩knowledge and abilities of Solomon, she came from the utmost parts of the earth to see his person, and to hear his wisdom. But behold, Reader, a greater than Solomon is here. Solomon was an Idiot, an Innocent, to this object, which I request thee to know. The understanding of God is infinite,