OF SPIRITUAL MINDEDNESS. 189 support us under our despondencies, and enable us to our duties. 4. Especial providential warnings, call for thoughts of God's omnipresence and omniscience. So Jacob, in his nightly vision, instantly made this conclusion; God is in this place, and I knew it not. We have fre- quently suchwarnings given to us. Sometimes we have so in the thingswhich are esteemed accidental, whence it maybe we are strangely delivered. Sometimes we have so in the things which we see to befall others, by thunder, lightning, storms at sea or land. For all the works of God, especially those that are rare and strange, have a voice whereby he speaks to us. The first thing suggested to a spiritual mind, in such sea- sons, will be, God is in this place, he is present that liveth and seeth, as Hagar confessed on the like occa- sion, Gen. xvi. 13, 14. (3.) Have frequent thoughts of God's omnipotency, or his almighty power. This most men, it may be, suppose they need not much exhortation to ; for none ever doubted of it ; who doth not grant it on all occa- sions T_, Men grant it indeed in general; for eternal power is inseparable from the first notionof the Divine Being. So are they conjoined by the apostle, his eter- nal power and godhead, Rom. i. 20. Yet few believe it for themselves, and as they ought. Indeed, to be- lieve the almighty power of God, with reference to ourselves and all our concernments, temporal and eter- nal, is one of the highest and most noble acts of faith, which includes all others in it. For this is that which God at first proposed alone as the proper object of our faith, in our entrance into covenant with him, Gen. xvii. 1. I am God Almighty ; that which Job arrived to, after his long exercise and trial ; I know, saith he,
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