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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 6: God incomparable in his Being, as it is Infinite and Incomprehensible.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Deeper then Hell, what canst thou know? Heaven and Hell are at the greatest distance, and are most remote from our apprehensions. Who knoweth what is done in Heaven? what in Hell? what is enjoyed in the one, or suffered in the other? no more can any know what God is. Who knoweth the nature, number, order, motions, influence of the heavenly Bodies; something is conjecturally delivered about them, nothing certain; much less doth any know the number, nature, order, wonder, worship of the celestial Courtiers in the third Heavens, of the thousand thousand that are before God, the ten thousand times ten thousand that minister to him; least of all can any know that Being that made all these, that preserveth ⟨p. 49⟩all these, that ordereth and governeth, animateth and actuateth all these; that gives them all that they are, and enableth them to all that they do.
Deeper then Hell, what canst thou know? Heaven and Hell are at the greatest distance, and are most remote from our apprehensions. Who knoweth what is done in Heaven? what in Hell? what is enjoyed in the one, or suffered in the other? no more can any know what God is. Who knoweth the nature, number, order, motions, influence of the heavenly Bodies; something is conjecturally delivered about them, nothing certain; much less doth any know the number, nature, order, wonder, worship of the coelestial Courtiers in the third Heavens, of the thousand thousand that are before God, the ten thousand times ten thousand that minister to him; least of all can any know that Being that made all these, that preserveth ⟨p. 49⟩all these, that ordereth and governeth, animateth and actuateth all these; that gives them all that they are, and enableth them to all that they do.
Deeper then Hell, what canst thou know? Who knoweth the Mines and Minerals which lie in the bosom, in the bowels of the Earth? Who knoweth the place of Sapphires, the Coral, the Pearls, and the precious Onyx: