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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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The holy Ghost tells us, None is like God, he hath no equal in worth and perfection. Who is a God like unto thee? Exod. 15.11. Among all the Gods there is none like to thee, Psal. 86.6. And the holy Ghost tells us also, that no people is like the people of God, and that because God is theirs. Happy art thou O Israel, who is like unto thee? (why whence comes their incomparable happiness? truly from the incomparable God,) ⟨p. 298⟩saved by the Lord, who is the shield of thine help, and the sword of thine excellency. Again, What Nation is so great which hath God so nigh unto them, Deut. 4.7. Israel at this time, to flesh and sense, seemed a most unhappy people, they were in a barren and howling wilderness, without an house to hide their heads in; without food, but what a miracle sent them in; without raiment, but what was on their backs; without any dealings or converse with other people, nay, in the midst of cruel and potent enemies, they must fight their way to Canaan against walled Towns, and sturdy Giants; and yet even in this plight they are the happiest people under the cope of heaven; Because the God of heaven, the incomparable God, was nigh to them. David asserts Gods incomparable Majesty, and thence Israels incomparable felicity, 2 Sam. 7.22, 23. Wherefore thou art great, O Lord, there is none like thee, (what followeth thence?) And what Nation at this day is like unto thy people, even like Israel? Reader, if thou art once effectually called, if thou art a regenerated sanctified person, know to thy comfort, and rejoice therein, that this incomparable God is thine. 2. That all his ⟨p. 299⟩incomparable excellencies are thine. 3. That this incomparable God, with all his incomparable perfections, will be thine for ever.
The holy Ghost tells us, None is like God, he hath no equal in worth and perfection. Who is a God like unto thee?