Gospel-revelation in three treatises, viz, 1 The nature of God. 2 The excellencies of…

Use 6 Sixthly, If God be thus excellent above all, and his glory thus above the earth and heavens, hence we are taught to labour to keep the sense of the infinite distance that there is between God and his creatures always in our hearts: And this is a ⟨p. 41⟩point of marvellous consequence, the sense of the distance between God and us: If God be infinitely above the creature, then God expects that we that profess any knowledge of him, that we should evermore have our thoughts upon Gods excellency, raised in a kind of infiniteness above what we think of the excellency of any creature; and our hearts then should work after God in a kind of infiniteness more than ever they did work after any creature, as there is an infinite disproportion between the excellency of God, and the excellency that there is in any creature. I beseech you observe what I am speaking, for it is of marvellous use to help us to sanctify God in all our ways; as there is an infinite distance between the excellency of God, and of all creatures, so there ought to be in a kind, an infinite distance between what our hearts are in the working after God, and the working after the creature, otherwise we lift not up Gods Name in his excellency and glory. And indeed a gracious heart will make it so; and in this I conceive the very work of grace consists, in that it is such a principle in the soul of a man or woman that is converted, that though such a one be a finite creature, yet it hath a kind of infiniteness in the working of it after God. You will say, Infinite, how can that be? True, I confess properly it cannot be infinite, but thus it is infinite in its kind, that is, such a creature hath such a principle as it would fain, if it were possible, work infinitely after God: And

Use 6 Sixthly, If God bee thus excellent above all, and his glory thus above the earth and heavens, hence we are taught to labour to keep the sense of the infinite distance that there is between God and his creatures alwayes in our hearts: And this is a ⟨p. 41⟩point of marvellous consequence, the sense of the distance between God and us: If God bee infinitely above the creature, then God expects that wee that profess any knowledge of him, that wee should evermore have our thoughts upon Gods excellency, raised in a kinde of infiniteness above what wee think of the excellency of any creature; and our hearts then should work after God in a kinde of infiniteness more than ever they did work after any creature, as there is an infinite disproportion between the excellency of God, and the excellency that there is in any creature. I beseech you observe what I am speaking, for it is of marvellous use to help us to sanctifie God in all our wayes; as there is an infinite distance between the excellency of God, and of all creatures, so there ought to bee in a kinde, an infinite distance between what our hearts are in the working after God, and the working after the creature, otherwise wee lift not up Gods Name in his excellency and glory. And indeed a gracious heart will make it so; and in this I conceive the very work of grace consists, in that it is such a principle in the soul of a man or woman that is converted, that though such a one bee a finite creature, yet it hath a kinde of infiniteness in the working of it after God. You will say, Infinite, how can that bee? True, I confess properly it cannot bee infinite, but thus it is infinite in its kinde, that is, such a creature hath such a principle as it would fain, if it were possible, work infinitely after God: And