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

But are Men or Angels comparable to God in this? Surely no: As for Man, he is a Bird of Time, here to day, and gone to morrow, Job 14.1. Of few days: As for Man, his days are as Grass, Psal. 103.15. Now flourishing, but quickly perishing.

Man hath a beginning, succession and ending. There was a Time when Man was not, Man enjoyeth his time by parts and parcels, and Man ere long shall be no more. All men in this are alike, high or low, good or bad: There is a vast difference between God and all Men in their duration; Are thy days as the days of Man? are thy years as Mans years? Job 10.5. No, in no respect; Man's days begin, succeed and end; not so God's days. Well might David say (though he had lived as long as Methuselah), Mine ⟨p. 38⟩age is nothing unto thee, Psal. 39.5. And truly as Men are far from being comparable to God, so are Angels: Angels had a beginning, Coloss. 1.16. Angels have a succession in their duration, they enjoy part to day, part to morrow, part the next day, every moment addeth to their duration; what is past they do not enjoy, nor what is to come, but only what is present; and thus it is also with Souls of Saints in Heaven.

Man hath a beginning, succession and ending. There was a Time when Man was not, Man enjoyeth his time by parts and parcels, and Man ere long shall be no more. All men in this are alike, high or low, good or bad: There is a vast difference between God and all Men in their duration; Are thy dayes as the dayes of Man? are thy years as Mans years? Job 10.5. No, in no respect; Man's days begin, succeed and end; not so God's dayes. Well might David say (though he had lived as long as Methuselah), Mine