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

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, Psal. 48.10. Therefore his name alone being excellent, Psal. 148.13. his praise alone must be excellent. David tells God, I will praise thee yet more and more, Psal. 71.14. He had already praised him much, but he would endeavour to praise him more; and when he had done so, he would praise him more, and still more. We read of songs of degrees, Psal. 120, 121. We should ascend in our praises of God by an holy climax, till we come to the highest degree that is possible, and screw up our faculties herein to the utmost pitch that they are capable of.