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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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Treatise › Chapter 27: Comfort to them that have the incomparable God for their portion.
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Thirdly, This Doctrine may be useful by way of comfort to all the people of God: If God be an incomparable God, then they are incomparably blessed who take him for their God, who have him for their happiness. Every person or people is happy, or miserable, as the God is whom they serve, as that is in which they place their felicity; for nothing can give out more happiness to another, than it hath in it self. That good must of necessity be ⟨p. 296⟩first in the cause, either eminently or formally, which is conveyed from it to the effect. Those who serve the flesh as their God and chief good, must needs be miserable, Philip. 3.18. Rom. 16.18. Because the flesh is a base and vile, Psal. 49. ult. a weak and impotent, Isa. 31.3. a fraudulent and deceitful, Jer. 17.9. a fading and transitory God, Psal. 73.25. 1 Cor. 6.23. So they who own, and prize, and love the world as their God and chief good (of such we read, the covetous man is called an Idolater, and covetousness Idolatry, Eph. 5.5.) are miserable, because their God is vain and empty, Eccles. 1.2, 3. piercing and vexatious, 1 Tim. 6.9, 10. uncertain and unsatisfying, Eccles. 5.10. 1 Tim. 6.17. frail, and not lasting, 1 Cor. 7.29, 30.