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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.
Again, the God who is offered thee, is the Well of Salvation, the Lord of life, the God of all consolation, an Hive of sweetness, a Paradise of pleasure, an Heaven of joy. He is the richest grace, the dearest love, the surest friend, the highest honour, the vastest treasure, the exactest beauty, the chiefest good, and the fullest felicity. He is one that can enlarge and suit all thy faculties, relieve and answer all thy necessities, fill up and satisfy all the capacities of thine Heaven-born soul. God is a good which Christ died to purchase for thee, Eph. 2.13. 1 Pet. 3.18. And surely if Christ thought him worth his blood, he is worthy thine acceptance. God is a comprehensive universal good, not one, but all good, Riches, Honours, Pleasures, Friends, Relations, Health, Life, Earth, Heaven, this World, the other World, all the good of both Worlds, and infinitely more; and art thou not covetous of such wealth that is better worth than both worlds? Philip. 4.19. Psal. 23.1. Gen. 17.1. God is an everlasting good, a good that will stand by thee, and abide with thee when all other good things shall fail thee, 1 Tim. 6.7. ⟨p. 270⟩Psal. 73.25. He is that good which thou wouldst have if thou art well in thy wits: he is that good which thou shouldst have if thou answerest the end of thy Creation; he is that good which thou must have, if thou art not eternally miserable; He is the only suitable satisfying good, which hits the nature, and fits the desire of the rational creature. O Reader, I say again, what dost thou think of having this incomparable God for thy God? Surely by this time thy heart may well melt into astonishment, that he will allow thee to seek so matchless a portion. Well, what sayest thou to him? Is it not worth the while to have him for thine, to whom thou wilt call in the day of distress, to whom thou wilt cry in a dying hour, when thy Soul stands quivering on thy lips, ready to take its flight into the unknown Regions of the other world, when Devils will be waiting to seize it, as soon as ever it leaves the body, to hale it to the unquenchable flames of hell, when thy Friends and Relations shall be weeping and wailing by thee, but unable to afford thy dying body the least Cordial, or thy departing soul the least Comfort. Ah friend, what wilt thou do in such an