The fourth (and last) volume of discourses, or sermons, on several scriptures

Secondly, As the Consideration of Use 2 of God's Omnipresence should encourage us in Prayer, as knowing that God certainly hears us, so it should affect us with a Holy Awe and Reverence ⟨p. 461⟩of God in all our Prayers and Duties, and in the whole Course of our Lives and Conversations. Certainly it is an excellent Meditation to prepare our Hearts to Duty, and to compose them in Duty, to be much pondering the Omnipresence of God, to think that I am with God, he is present in the Room with me, even in the Congregation with me, and likewise in my Closet, and in all my Converse and Dealings in the World: How can it be possible for that Man to be frothy and vain, that keeps this Thought alive in his Heart? If the Presence of some Earthly Person strike an Awe in our Hearts when we come before them, how much more should the Consideration of God's Presence affect us with an Holy Fear? Suppose an Angel should fly in the midst of us, that are here present, with a rushing and dazzling Glory, how would it make all our Hearts beat and throb within us? It would make us soon abandon all those vain Thoughts that now we feed upon, those Thoughts that eat out the Heart and Life of Duty; how much more should it affect us and fill us with Holy Fear, that God is now and always in the midst of us, ⟨p. 462⟩whose Glory stains and sullies the Beauty, and extinguishes the Light of Angels. Oh! that God, that is always present with us, should be worshipped and served with a Holy Fear, and remembered with the greatest Veneration. Now, to imprint this the more deeply, I shall suggest two or three Particulars.

Secondly, As the Consideration of Ʋse 2 of God's Omnipresence should encourage us in Prayer, as knowing that God certainly hears us, so it should affect us with a Holy Awe and Reverence ⟨p. 461⟩of God in all our Prayers and Duties, and in the whole Course of our Lives and Conversations. Certainly it is an excellent Meditation to prepare our Hearts to Duty, and to compose them in Duty, to be much pondering the Omnipresence of God, to think that I am with God, he is present in the Room with me, even in the Congregation with me, and likewise in my Closet, and in all my Converse and Dealings in the World: How can it be possible for that Man to be frothy and vain, that keeps this Thought alive in his Heart? If the Presence of some Earthly Person strike an Awe in our Hearts when we come before them, how much more should the Consideration of God's Presence affect us with an Holy Fear? Suppose an Angel should fly in the midst of us, that are here present, with a rushing and dazling Glory, how would it make all our Hearts beat and throb within us? It would make us soon abandon all those vain Thoughts that now we feed upon, those Thoughts that eat out the Heart and Life of Duty; how much more should it affect us and fill us with Holy Fear, that God is now and always in the midst of us,