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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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3. His Being is an independent Being: He is by himself, as well as from and for himself; None ever in Heaven or Earth contributed the least towards the maintenance or continuance of his Being; Neither the Creatures goodness, nor their Goods do him the least good. Not their goodness; Men ⟨p. 21⟩may be advantaged by the goodness of Men, but God cannot: My goodness extendeth not to thee, but to the Saints that are on Earth, Psal. 16.3. Not their Goods, He is the Lord Proprietor of the whole world, and if he wanted any thing, he would not ask the leave of any; for all is his own, but he is above all want: If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; for the World is mine, and the fullness thereof, Psal. 50.12. i. e. I declare to the World, That I am uncapable of the least want; or if I needed a Meals-Meat, I would scorn to go to the Creatures Door to beg it: I could supply my self out of my own Store, if there were need, but there is no need at all. He challengeth all the World, to produce any Being that ever obliged or engaged him in the least: Who hath prevented me, that I may repay him, Job 41.11. Where is the Man, where is the Angel, where is the Creature that can say, He ever did me the least kindness, that hath been before-hand with me in courtesy, to whom I am the least in debt for my subsistence? I am here ready to make him amends: Who hath prevented me, that I may repay him?
3. His Being is an independent Being: He is by himself, as well as from and for himself; None ever in Heaven or Earth contributed the least towards the maintenance or continuance of his Being; Neither the Creatures goodness, nor their Goods do him the least good. Not their goodness; Men ⟨p. 21⟩may be advantaged by the goodness of Men, but God cannot: My goodness extendeth not to thee, but to the Saints that are on Earth, Psal. 16.3. Not their Goods, He is the Lord Proprietor of the whole world, and if he wanted any thing, he would not ask the leave of any; for all is his own, but he is above all want: If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; for the World is mine, and the fulness thereof,