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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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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.
Praise him for the incomparableness of his being. That he is an independent, all-sufficient, absolutely perfect, incomprehensible, omnipresent, eternal, infinite being, should much affect our hearts. Praise ye the Lord, Praise him, O ye servants of the Lord, Praise the name of the Lord; Blessed from this time forth, and for ever: From the rising of the Sun, to the going down of the same, the Lords name is to be praised: (why) the Lord is high above all Nations, and his glory ⟨p. 280⟩above the Heavens; who is like to the Lord our God, who dwelleth on high? Psal. 113.1, to 6.