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

The knowledge of God will render the world contemptible to a Christian. None undervalue the Creature, but those who have had a sight of the Creator; neither can any trample on the riches, honours, and pleasures of this world, but those who know him who is the riches, and honours, and pleasures of the other world. They who never saw the Sun, wonder at a Candle: and they who never knew the blessed ⟨p. 146⟩God, wonder at, and are fond of poor low things, mean, small, pitiful things on earth: But the whole world, with all its Crowns, and Sceptres, and Diadems, and Delights, is but a dunghill to him that hath seen the incomparable God. Moses could refuse the honour of being the adopted Child of a Kings Heir, reject the pleasures of Pharaoh's Court, and prefer the reproaches of Christ before all the Treasures of Egypt, when he had once got a sight of the Incomparable God, Heb. 11.25, 26, 27. For he saw him that was invisible.

The knowledge of God will render the world contemptible to a Christian. None undervalue the Creature, but those who have had a sight of the Creator; neither can any trample on the riches, honours, and pleasures of this world, but those who know him who is the riches, and honours, and pleasures of the other world. They who never saw the Sun, wonder at a Candle: and they who never knew the blessed ⟨p. 146⟩God, wonder at, and are fond of poor low things, mean, small, pitiful things on earth: But the whole world, with all its Crowns, and Scepters, and Diadems, and Delights, is but a dunghill to him that hath seen the incomparable God. Moses could refuse the honour of being the adopted Child of a Kings Heir, reject the pleasures of Pharaoh's Court, and prefer the reproaches of Christ before all the Treasures of Egypt, when he had once got a sight of the Incomparable God, Heb. 11.25, 26, 27. For he saw him that was invisible.