The Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded

(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, Psal. 62.11. It was that which God saw it necessary frequently to instruct him in. For we are ready to be affected with the Appearances of present power in Creatures, and to suppose that all things will go according unto their wills, because of their power. But it is quite otherwise; all creatures are poor feeble Ciphers that can do nothing; Power belongs unto God, it is a flower of his Crown Imperial, which he will suffer none to usurp; if the proudest of them go beyond the Bounds and Limits of his present Permission, he will send Worms to eat them up, as he did to Herod.

(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 conjoyned by the Apostle, his eternal Power and Godhead, Rom. 1.20