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On
the
Nature
of
God.
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fo much
as
after thee?
that
would bee
a
good argument
of
a
gracious work
of God
upon
thee
:
Surely
if
none bee like
unto the Lord
,
then
our
hearts
fhould bee after nothing
fo
as
after the Lord
:
Wee
mutt not content
our
felves
with
a
little
love
to God
;
Is there
filch
a
difproportion
between
thy love
to
the
creature, and
thy
love to God,
as
there
isbe-
tween
God,
and the creature?
Thou fayeft thou
Lovett
God,
I
but it may
bee
thou
loved
the creature
as
well
:
Doeftthou
think
that
this
will fatisfie
God
?
When
thou
hearetkthat Gods Name
alone is
excellent,
God
expeas
that
thy love to
h
m fhould bee
in
akinde
infinite
above
that
love of thine to
any creature
elle.
And
there
is
this
one thing further, with
which
I
will con-
clude,
Sorely
if
Gods
Name
alone
bee
excellent, then
in
a
pro-
portion Gads
people
alone
are
the
excellent people upon
the
earth..
According
as
a
mans
God
is
,
fo
is
hee
;
as
you know men
conceive their excellency
to
bee according to the
excellency
of
him
whomthey ferve; according
as
a
mans
God
is
(I
fay)
fo
is
hee
:
Now if God alone
bee
excellent,
and hee bee
thy
God
,
then
thou
art excellent
;
the people
of God
are
therefore excellent, becaufe their God
is fo
excellent
;
this
is the
reafort
of
that phrafe that
you
have
in
Prov.
i
2.26.
The righteous
is
more excellent than
his neighbour
:
Why
is
a.
righteous
man more excellent than
his
neighbour?
It
may
bee
the
righteous
man
is
a
poor
man , and
his
neighbour
is a
rich
man
,
perhaps
this poor good
mans next
neighbour
is
a
Knight or
a
Noble-man
,
yet
bee
is
more
excellent than
his
neighbour
:
Why? becaufe
his
God
is more
excellent,
becaufe the infinite Lord
of
heaven and earth
is
the
portion
of
a
righteous man
If
God
bee alone
excellent,
then the
righteous
is
alone excellent
;
and
I will
give you
a
Scripture
or two
to
fhew,that according
tothe
excellency of God, in
a
proportion
Both
appear
the excellency of the children
of
God; compare
Deut.3
3.andthe
z6.
verfe,
and
the
z9.verfe
together
:
Itf verfe
z
6.There
is
none
like
unto the God
of
Ka-
rim:
then
inverf.ig.HQppy
art
thou
O
¡freac!,
who
is
like
unto
thee
?Yowfee
that
there
is a
refleEtionof the glory
ofGod up-
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