The four last things viz. death, judgment, heaven, hell, practically considered and applied in…

The Divine Presence affects the Saints with the most humble reverence and solemn veneration of God. This is an eternal respect due from the intellectual Creature to the Creator, upon the account of his infinite and incommunicable Excellencies. He is distinguished not only from Idols, but from Creatures of the highest Order, by his essential supreme, and singular Name, I AM. Every kind of Being, every spark of Life, every degree of Perfection is from his Efficiency, and depends entirely upon his supporting Power. The most eminent Qualities of the Creatures are but in show and appearance, compared with the reality and stability of his glorious Nature. In the Scripture, Wisdom, Holiness, Goodness, Power, Truth, Immortality, are attributed to God, with the exclusion of all Creatures from those Prerogatives; they being his essential, infinite and wise incomparable Perfections. They are separable Qualities in the Creatures, like the gilding and enamelling of baser Metal: but in the Deity, they are like substantial massy Gold. There is a vast distance between ⟨p. 300⟩created Beings; but the Distance between a Fly, or a Worm, and an Angel, is nothing to the distance between an Arch-angel and God: there being no comparison between finite and infinite. All Creatures equally vanish, and disappear as nothing compared to the glorious Creator. As if one from the Region of the Stars should look down upon the Earth, the Mountains and Hills with the Valleys, would appear one flat Surface, an equal Plain, the height and the lowness of the several parts being indiscernible at that immense distance.

The Divine Presence affects the Saints with the most humble reverence and solemn veneration of God. This is an eternal respect due from the intellectual Creature to the Creatour, upon the account of his infinite and incommunicable Excellencies. He is distinguish'd not only from Idols, but from Creatures of the highest Order, by his essential supreme, and singular Name, I AM. Every kind of Being, every spark of Life, every degree of Perfection is from his Efficiency, and depends entirely upon his supporting Power. The most eminent Qualities of the Creatures are but in show and appearance, compar'd with the reality and stability of his glorious Nature. In the Scripture, Wisdom, Holiness, Goodness, Power, Truth, Immortality, are attributed to God, with the exclusion of all Creatures from those Prerogatives; they being his essential, infinite and wise incomparable Perfections. They are separable Qualities in the Creatures, like the gilding and enamaling of baser Metal: but in the Deity, they are like substantial massy Gold. There is a vast distance between