182 OF SPIRITUAL MINDEDNESS. ble greatness, and incomprehensible perfections; find- ing ourselves to be nothing, and God to be all, will give us rest and peace in these things, Rom. xi. 33- 36. We have but unsteady thoughts of the greatness of the world, and all the nations and inhabitants of it, yet are it and these but as ' the dust of the balance and the drop of the bucket, as vanity, as nothing,' compared with God : what then can our thoughts con- cerninghim issue in, but holy admiration l 2. Incase we are brought to a loss and disorder in our minds, on the contemplation of any one infinite property of God, it is good to divert our thoughts to the effects of it, such as whereof we have, or may have experience ; for what is too great or high for us in itself, is made suitable to our understandings in its effects. So the ' invisible things of God are known in, and by, the things that are seen.' And there is indeed no property of the divine nature, but we may have an experience of it, as to some of its effects in and upon ourselves. These we may consider, and in the streams taste of the fountain which we cannot ap- proach. By them we are led to an holy admiration of what is in itself infinite, immense, incomprehensible. 1 cannot comprehend the immensity of God's nature ; it may be, I cannot understand the nature of immensi- ty; yet if I find by experience, and do strongly be- lieve, that he is always present wherever I am, I have the faith of it, and satisfaction in it. (2.) With thoughts of the divine being, those of his omnipresence and omniscience ought continually to accompany us. We cannot take one step in a walk before him, unless we remember, that always and in all places he is present withus ; that the frame of our hearts, and our inwardthoughts, are continually inhis
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