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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
This knowledge must needs be a sanctifying knowledge, because it renders sin abominable, the world contemptible, God honourable, and the soul the more humble.
The knowledge of God will render sin most abominable to the Soul, it renders sin to be exceeding sinful. The miseries that befall us in our estates, names, bodies, ⟨p. 245⟩souls, nay, all the curses of the Law, and torments of the damned, do not discover the ugly loathsome features, and monstrous deformed nature of sin, like the knowledge of this incomparable God. Job confesseth his sin, Job 42.2. I uttered things that I understood not; nay, he abhorreth himself for his sin, v. 5. But whence came he who sometime justified himself too much, now to abhor himself? He gives us the reason or cause of it, I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, (I had some knowledge of thee before) but now mine eyes see thee (I now have a clearer and fuller knowledge of thee) wherefore I abhor my self, and repent in dust and ashes. The more we know the greatest good, the more we shall hate the greatest evil.
The knowledge of God will render sin most abominable to the Soul, it renders sin to be exceeding sinful. The miseries that befall us in our estates, names, bodies, ⟨p. 245⟩souls, nay, all the curses of the Law, and torments of the damned, do not discover the ugly loathsome features, and monstrous deformed nature of sin, like the knowledge of this incomparable God. Job confesseth his sin, Job 42.2. I uttered things that I understood not; nay, he abhorreth himself for his sin, v. 5. But whence came he who sometime justifyed himself too much, now to abhor himself? He gives us the reason or cause of it, I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, (I had some knowledge of thee before) but now mine eyes see thee (I now have a clearer and fuller knowledge of thee) wherefore I abhor my self, and repent in dust and ashes. The more we know the greatest good, the more we shall hate the greatest evil.