Christs temptation and transfiguration practically explained and improved in several sermons /

2. We should be humble in our conversing with him, considering what he is, and we are, Job 42. 5, 6. I have heard of thee with the hearing of the ear, now mine eye seeth thee, therefore I abhor my self in dust and ashes. This should keep his children in a holy awe. Oh how low should we lye before this great God, Gen. 18. 27. Who am I that am but dust and ashes, that I should speak unto God.

2. We should be humble in our conversing with him, considering what he is, and we are, Iob 42. 5, 6. I have heard of thee with the hearing of the ear, now mine eye seeth thee, therefore I abhor my self in dust and ashes. This should keep his children in a holy awe. Oh how low should we lye before this great God, Gen. 18. 27. Who am I that am but dust and ashes, that I should speak unto God.

3. That we must not please our selves with the performance of ordinary service to him, but we should raise it to an eminent degree of Worship and Adoration, Psal. 48. 1. Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised in the City of our God, and Psalm 145. 3. Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised. Alas the best we do is much beneath God. what low thoughts had Solomon of his stately Temple, 2 Chr. 2. 6. Who is able to build thee an house, seeing the Heaven of Heavens is not able to contain him, who am I that I should build him an house? Thus should we see, that our best resolutions and performances come much short of the excellency and greatness of God. All formality and