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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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CHAP. XXVI. 3. Ex. Give God the glory of his incomparable excellency: with some considerations to enforce it.
IF God be such an incomparable God, give him the glory and honour of his incomparable excellencies: His incomparable perfections must have incomparable praises. Praise him, saith the Psalmist, according to his excellent greatness, Psal. 159.2. But alas! what tongue, what understanding of men or Angels can do it, can praise him according to his excellent greatness? But though we cannot praise him according to the utmost of his excellencies, we must praise him according to the utmost of our abilities. The highest God, Psal. 92.1. must have the highest praises. Psal. 149.8. The high praises of God are in their mouths. The greatest God, Psal. 145.3. must have our greatest praises. Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised. Low or little praises are a dispraise to one so eminently, so infinitely high and great.
Ordinary commendations of an extraordinary ⟨p. 279⟩person are a discommendation to him. According to thy name, so, O Lord, is thy praise to the end of the earth,