The Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded

4. Especial Providential warnings call for Thoughts of Gods Omnipresence and Omniscience. So Jacob in his nightly Vision, instantly made this Conclusion; God is in this place and I knew it not. We have frequently such warnings given unto us. Sometimes we have so in the things which are esteemed accidental, whence it may be we are strangely delivered. Sometimes we have so in the things which we see to befall others, by Thunder, Lightning, Storms at Sea or Land. For all the works of God, especially those that are rare and strange, have a voice whereby he speaks unto us. The first thing suggested unto a spiritual Mind in such seasons, will be, God is in this place, he is present that liveth and seeth, as Hagar confessed on the like occasion, Gen. 16.13, 14.

(3.) Have frequent Thoughts of Gods Omnipotency, or his Almighty Power. This most men it may be, suppose they need not much Exhortation unto; for none ever doubted of it; who doth not grant it on all occasions? Men grant it indeed in general; for eternal Power is inseparable from the first notion of the Divine Being. So are they conjoined by the Apostle, his eternal Power and Godhead, Rom. 1.20. Yet few believe it for themselves and as they ought. Indeed, to believe the Almighty Power of God, with reference unto our selves and all our ⟨p. 164⟩Concernments Temporal and Eternal, is one of the highest and most Noble Acts of Faith, which includes all others in it. For this is that which God at first proposed alone as the proper Object of our Faith, in our entrance into Covenant with him, Gen. 17.1. I am God Almighty; That which Job arrived unto after his long exercise and Trial: I know, saith he, thou canst do every thing, and no Thought of thine can be hindered, Chap. 42.2. God hath spoken once, (saith the Psalmist) twice have I heard this, that Power belongs unto God,