Englands duty under the present gospel liberty from Revel. III, vers. 20

First, There is a sweet and sensible communion betwixt God and his people in the contemplation of the divine Attributes, and the impressions God makes by them, upon our Souls whilst we medi•ate on them, As for instance,

(1.) Sometimes the Lord discovers and manifests to the Souls of his people his immense greatness; the manifestation of which Attribute makes an awful humbling impression upon the Soul; makes them seem as nothing to themselves. Thus when Abraham that great believer considered the greatness of that God with whom he had to do; that sight of God seemed to reduce him to his first principles, to crumble him as it were into dust and ashes again, Gen. 18. 27. I that am but dust and ashes have taken upon me to speak unto God. He now looks upon himself as an heap of vileness and unworthiness; so David, Psal. 8. 12. When I consider thy Heavens, the work of thy hands; the Moon and the Stars which thou hast made, (from whence he inferred the greatness of the Creator) Lord what is man, that thou art mindful of him? q. d. When I consider what a great God the Creator of the World is, I am justly astonished that ever he should set his Heart upon so vile a thing as Man. When men compare themselves among themselves, and measure themselves by themselves, their Spirits are apt to swell with pride; but would they look up to God, as these holy men did, they would admire his condescension. And this is communion with God in the meditation of his immense greatness.

(1.) Sometimes the Lord discovers and manifests to the Souls of his people his immense greatness; the manifestation of which Attribute makes an awful humbling impression upon the Soul; makes them seem as nothing to themselves. Thus when Abraham that great believer considered the greatness of that God with whom he had to do; that sight of God seemed to reduce him to his first principles, to crumble him as it were into dust and ashes again, Gen. 18. 27. I that am but dust and ashes have taken upon me to speak unto God. He now looks upon himself as an heap of vileness and unworthiness; so David, Psal. 8. 12. When I consider thy Heavens, the work of thy hands; the Moon and the Stars which thou hast made, (from whence he inferr'd the greatness of the Creator) Lord what is man, that thou art mindful of him? q. d. When I consider what a great God the Creator of the World is, I am justly astonished that ever he should set his Heart upon so vile a thing as Man. When men compare themselves among themselves, and measure themselves by themselves, their Spirits are apt to swell with pride; but would they look up to God, as these holy men did, they would admire his condescension. And this is communion with God in the meditation of his immense greatness.