Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God

Let us therefore often meditate upon this, but not in a bare speculation without engaging our affections, and making every notion of the Divine Eternity end a in suitable impression upon our hearts: This would be much like the Disciples gazing upon the Heavens at the ascension of their Master, while they forgot the practice of his Orders:^* We may else find something of the nature of God, and lose our selves, not only in Eternity but to Eternity.

Let us therefore often meditate upon this, but not in a bare speculation without engaging our affections, and making every notion of the Divine Eternity end a in sutable impression upon our hearts: This would be much like the Disciples gazing upon the Heavens at the ascension of their Master, while they forgat the practice of his Orders:^* We may else find something of the nature of God, and lose our selves, not only in Eternity but to Eternity.

1. *Acts 1.11.

2. And hence the second part of the Exhortation is, to something which concerns us with a respect to God.

1. If God be eternal, How worthy is he of our choicest affections, and strongest desires of communion with him? Is not every thing to be valued according to the greatness of its Being? How then should we love him, who is not only lovely in his nature, but eternally lovely; having from everlasting all those perfections centred in himself, which appear in time? If every thing be lovely, by how much the more it partakes of