Christs eternal existence, and the dignity of his person asserted and proved in opposition…

1. Adoration of his excellent nature above all other things. 2. Affiance in his goodness, with expectation of relief from him. 3. Thankfulness for his benefits. 4. Obedience to his Precepts and Commands.

Now unless we acknowledge his intimate presence with, and preservation of all things; these necessary duties will either be quite abolished or degenerate into a vain and needless superstition.

1. The Adoration we owe to his excellent nature above all other things in the universe, alas, we see how little reverence and respect we have for the great Potentates of the Earth whose fame we hear of indeed, but are not concerned in their favour or frowns, or have no dependence on them at all: the least Justice of Peace or Constable in our Neighbourhood is more to us then all these mighty foreign Princes, with whom we have nothing to do but only to hear and read the reports of their greatness, when we have no other business to divert us. So cold and careless would be our respect to God if we did not depend on him every moment, and were neither concerned in his wrath nor love: those practical Atheists that were settled on their Lees, and lived in a secure neglect of God, they sos•ered it by this presumption, tush he will neither do good nor evil, Zeph. 1.13. Fine things may be told us of the Excellency of his Nature, but what is that to us, he hath so shut up himself within the curtain ⟨p. 98⟩of the Heavens, that he takes no notice or care of things here below. How soon would such a conceit dispirit all Religion, and take away the life and vigour of it; but if you would plant a reverence and due veneration of God you must do it by this principle, In his hands is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind. No Creature can subsist without him for a moment: now this respect is due not only to God the Father, but our Lord Jesus Christ.