44
on
the
Nature
.'of -God.
on his
Saints,there
is
none
like
to God,and
there
isnone
like
a
Gods
people.. And
fo
in,
2
Sam.7.2i.
you'
have an ex-
pretiion
-to
the
famepurpaf
,
Wherefore_
thou
artgreat,
Q
Lord
God,
for
there. rs
none
like
#ee,
neither is
,there
any
God
kefides
thee,
according
le
all that
Fee
have
heard
with
our,
ears
then
in
verfe
23.
,And
what
one
Nation in
:the
earth
is
likethy
people
?
So
than wee fee
here,
that
according to
the
rife
of
Gods.
excellency
,
foisthe
rife
of
the excellency
of
his
Saints.
In
a
proportion they
rife
in
their excellency
as
God
rifes
in
his:If
God
be
alone,
excellent,certainly
they
are
the excellent people in
the
world
,;
And-why?
becaufe
the
excellency
of
God
is
manifefted
over
them
to
do.
them
Nate'
good.
Here
is
a
note
that
hark
abundance
of
foul,-
fatisfying
encouragement
to
all
-the.
Saints of
God
in
any
of their
af-
ftliaed
conditions
,
whatfoever;
thou
haft
heard
that
Gods
Name
is
aline
excellent
,
fo
adde
this
to
it
for
thy
com-
fort
,
who art one
of
Gods ,
that
God
accounts
his
chef
excellency,
in
his
manifeflátion of himfelf in
all the
world
,
tç
bee
,
that
,hee
'night
let
out
himfelf for
thy good
,
and
dogood
to
thee,
and-that
I
will
Phew you
by
a
Scripture
or
two, in Pfal.gß.
34. His.Excellency'(faith
the
text)
is
over
Ifrael
:
Oh
Lord,
there
is
ata.excellency
in
thee,
and
how
'cloth
this work,
where,doth
this
excellency
of
thine appear
?why
it
is
over
ifrael;
7
he
Excellency
of God
it
is over
lfrael
;
faith God,
I
have chofen out my Church,
and
mine
Excellency
(hall
bee,over
them,
and manifefted
towards
them,
for good
;
therefore in
;
Exed,
i
5.7.
there
where
Mofes
is.praifing;God for
the great
things
that hee
Both for his
people;, faithhee,
in
the
Greàsnefs
of
thine
Ex-
cellency
thou
haft dont
this thing
;,
fo
that
God
loth
delight
to
thew
his
Excellency,
yea
to
Phew
the Greatnefs of
his
Excellency for
the
good, of
his
people
:
Oh
how
fhould
the.Saints
of
God make their boail
of
their
God
,
Nand
re-
joyce.
in'him,
and
bee
encouraged
in
,God
4)I
one ! though
than
haft
no
other,portión
then,
God
alone,
,them:
haft por-
tion
enough,
In
Micah
5.
4.
there
is ar{,admitable
Scripture
for
theincouragetnent of
'the
hearts of
:Gï
s:peoplein
God
alone'