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

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 ⟨p. 274⟩reasonable, so equitable a request? As the servant said to Naaman, If the Prophet had commanded thee some great thing, wouldest not thou have done it? how much more then when he only saith, wash, and be clean? So say I to thee; If God had commanded the greatest things imaginable, wouldest thou not to thy power have done them, that thou mightst enjoy the blessed God for thy eternal portion? how much more then when he only saith, Thou shalt have no other God before me? O Reader, do but observe that first Command, which contains the sum both of thy duty and felicity, and thou art made, thou art a blessed man for ever.

Thou givest more for thy bread, thy cloaths, 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