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

2. Consider upon what terms thou mayst have this God for thy God. You may possibly ⟨p. 272⟩think that so boundless a good must cost you very dear, and the price must be vast of a pearl that is so matchless: but lo, to thy comfort, all the condition which God requireth of thee, is only to accept him heartily and thankfully in his Son. Canst thou have any thing cheaper? wouldst thou desire him in his terms to fall lower? nay is it possible so to do, and make thee happy? Nor can he be thine unless thou receivest him for thine. It's a poor favour that is not worth acceptance. Do but take him for your happiness, and you shall have him for your happiness.

Thou givest more for thy bread, thy clothes, thy house, for the needful comforts that are for the support of thy frail body, than thou needest give for the great glorious incomprehensible incomparable God. Thou payest money for them, but thou mayst have him without money and without price. One would think that the equity of the condition should both amaze thee and allure thee. Consider, I say, God doth not require of thee things impossible to thee; he doth not say, if thou wilt remove Mountains, dry up Oceans, stop the course of Nature, create ⟨p. 273⟩worlds, I will then be thine, as great as I am; He doth not say, if thou wilt satisfy my justice, answer the demands of my law, merit my love and favour, then I will be thy God; No, he himself hath done all this for thee by the death of his Son: All he desireth is, that thou wouldst accept him in his Son for thy God. Nay, he doth not require of thee any thing that is barbarous or cruel, as the heathen Deities did (by the Devil) of their worshippers. He doth not say, if you will lance and mangle your bodies, as Baals Priests did; if ye will go bare-foot in Sackcloth long and tedious pilgrimages, as the Papists do; if ye will offer your children in the fire, and give the fruit of your bodies for the sins of your souls, as some did, then I will be your God. Again, he doth not require of thee things that are chargeable, to offer the best and chief of thy flock daily in sacrifice to him; nor as he once did of the young man, to sell all that thou hast, and give it to the poor; nor as Idolaters, to lay down such a part of thy estate for thy pardon: but he only requires that thou wouldest take the Lord for thy God; and wilt thou not do it? Canst thou deny him and thy poor soul so