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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62054	A treatise of the incomparableness of God in his being, attributes, works and word opened and applyed / by Geo. Swinnocke ...	Swinnock, George, 1627-1673.	1672 (1672)	Wing S6282; ESTC R1063	124,931	323

Just in what it forbids us to do and good in both What Laws in the World are in any degree comparable to the Laws of God The Mahometan Laws which have gained so much credit in the greatest part almost of the known World are impure Laws allowing Revenge Poligamy and commanding Slaughters Oppressions c. for the Propagation of their Religion The Laws of the severest Heathen Lycurgus c. contained but the Carcass and Body of Purity had nothing of the Soul and Life thereof How many Sins against the very Law of Nature did that Lacedemonian Law-Giver allow of and where he or any of the rest did forbid Sin it was in the outward actions not in the inward affections Their Laws did rather Command the covering of Sin that it might not appear abroad then the killing of Sin that it might not be at all Their Laws were defective as to persons some Men were usually priviledged and not bound to them as to the parts of men they gave the inward man liberty though they restrained the outward as to Punishments the greatest Penalty they could think of or impose was a Temporal Death They never dreamed of an Hell in another World But O how pure how perfect is the Law of God! Thy Word is very pure saith David Psal 119. So pure that there is not the least mixture falshood or error in it It commands all and nothing but conformity to the mind of the great Soveraign and Lord of all things The Law of the Lord is perfect Psal 19.7 So perfect that it is not deficient in any thing It commandeth purity in the whole man in every faculty of the Soul in every member of the Body It commandeth purity in this whole man at all times in all companies in all conditions in all relations in all manner of conversation 1 Pet. 1.15 16. Psal 119.1 2. It 's apparent to common sense that fallen man could never dream of such strict exact Precepts no he is so far from it that he is wholly contrary thereunto Rom. 8.7 And Angels could not imagine them unless God had signified his mind to them For all holiness being a conformity to the Will of the most high God they could not discern what was holy what was unholy any farther then they could discover the Will of this incomparable God 2. The mystery of its Doctrines It containeth such Depths such bottomless Profundities that could not possibly have been imagin'd by Men or Angels had not God reveal'd them It acquainteth us with things far above the reach of created Reason though not contrary yet being told us are so correspondent that there is no ground left for the questioning them What the great Apostle saith upon occasion of one mystery we may say upon the whole O the Depth O the Depth of the Wisdom and Knowledge of God! Rom. 11.33 O the Depth of the holy Scriptures There is a Depth in them that none can fathome because a Depth in them that hath no bottom Great is the mystery of the Bible Who could think of a Womans coming into the World without a Woman as Eve of a mans coming into the World without a man as the Son of man nay without man or woman as Adam who could think that the same Woman should be a Mother a Virgin But these are small mysteries who could think that many thousands millions living many Miles and Ages distant should be fellow members and be truly one Body sympathising with serviceable to rejoycing in the welfare of each other all be united unto receive influence from and live wholly by one Head as far from them as Heaven is from the Earth Eph. 5.27 28 29 30. Coloss 2.19 Who could have thought that three really and personally distinct should be equal and one in nature and essence 1 John 5.7 Who could have imagin'd that God should become Man infinite become finite the Creator a Creature the Father of Spirits become Flesh and the Lord of Life be put to Death Who could conceive that he who made all things of nothing should be made himself of a Woman made by him That he whom the Heavens and Heaven of Heavens cannot contain should be contained in the narrow Womb of a Woman That the onely Bread of Life should be hungry the onely Water of Life be thirsty the onely Rest be weary the onely Ease be pained and the onely Joy and Consolation be sorrowful exceeding sorrowful unto Death Who could have imagin'd that one yea millions should be rich by anothers poverty filled by anothers emptiness be exalted by anothers disgrace healed by anothers wounds eased by anothers Pains be absolved by anothers Condemnation and live eternally by anothers temporal Death Who could have imagin'd that infinite Justice and infinite Mercy should be made fast Friends and fully satisfied by one and the same action that the greatest fury and the greatest favor the greatest hatred and the greatest love should concur in and be manifested by one and the same thing Could Men or Angels speak such Mysterles surely No. Several Mysteries in the Scriptures were hid from whole Ages and Generations of Men Which in former Ages was not made known to the Children of Men Eph. 3.5 No nor to Angels neither Verse 10. To the intent that now unto Principalities and Powers might be made by the Church the manifold Wisdom of God 3. The Prophesies and Predictions of the Word Neither Men nor Angels can fore-tell those things which depend not on natural Causes or which may not be deduced from moral or political Grounds and even in such things as these are they may be and have been deceived Therefore it was the subtilty of the old Serpent to deliver his Oracles often in ambiguous words and in deceitful Speeches that whatsoever happened his Credit might be salved as his Aio te Aeacida Romanos vincere posse Ibis redibis nunquam per bellae peribis c. But God fore-tels what hath no print of any footing in Nature what neither moral nor political Principles can direct unto and never fails in his Predictions He fore-tells the Birth of Cyrus 100 years before he was born Isa 48.28 The Birth of Josiah 200 years 1 Kings 13.2 The Conversion of the Gentiles and falling off of the Jews above 2000 years before it came to pass Gen. 9.27 Isa 49.6 Isa 54.9 10. He fore-tells the Birth of Chirst near 4000 years before he came into the World Gen. 3.15 And it is very observable how punctual and particular he is herein as knowing how much the well-fare of the World did depend upon the Knowledge of the true Messiah he tells you long before-hand of what Tribe he should come of Judah of what Family Davids of what Person a Virgin where he should be born in Bethlehem whence he must be called out of Egypt what his condition should be in general full of Sorrows and Griefs in particular that he should be disgraced and reviled tempted betrayed