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

The knowledge of God will render God more honourable in our esteems. The more we know of many things and persons, the more we sleight and despise them. The more we know sin, the more we loath it; the more we know our selves, the more we abhor our selves; but the more we know God, the more we love him, and the more we admire him. The reason of all the contempt and affronts which we offer to God, is our ignorance of him. The whole world lieth in wickedness, as a beast in its dung, or vermin in their slime, 1 Joh. 5.19. but the reason is what Christ speaks, Joh. 17.25. Father the world hath not known ⟨p. 147⟩thee; for the Apostle saith, had they known, they would never have Crucified the Lord of Glory, 1 Cor. 2.8. They who know God, cannot but see infinite reason why they should love, and fear, and honour, and please him all their days. Why do you think is God so much wondered at, and worshipped in his Church, more than in other parts of the world? Why doth he inhabit their highest praises, Psal. 22.3. and greatest blessings and thanksgivings, but because he is known more there than in other parts of the world. In Judah is God known (therefore) his name is great (his name alone is excellent) in Israel, Psal. 76.1.

The knowledge of God will render God more honourable in our esteems. The more we know of many things and persons, the more we sleight and despise them. The more we know sin, the more we loath it; the more we know our selves, the more we abhor our selves; but the more we know God, the more we love him, and the more we admire him. The reason of all the contempt and affronts which we offer to God, is our ignorance of him. The whole world lyeth in wickedness, as a beast in its dung, or vermine in their slime, 1 Joh. 5.19. but the reason is what Christ speaks,