1. God is a Spirit
But God being a Spirit, we must have spiritual worship. Your soul must be a at work. The great work is the work of the soul, for God is a Spirit and must be worshipped in spirit. Worshipping God in the flesh?
2. God is eternal
Our hearts taken off all temporal good. Confess past sins with a troubled spirit. Time altars nothing with God, so do not grow weary if he does not answer us presently.
3. God is incomprehensible
He is a God who fills all places. For it is the Lord who stands beside you.
4. God is unchangeable [immutable]
Our hearts must be taken off mutable things. We must therefore be humbled for our fickleness and and unconstantness.
5. God is living [a living God]
Let me bring a living service to Him. Quicken my heart to your law [PSalm 119:37]. God's people should have quick, active, and lively spirits. Let us be humbled for our dead hearts and dead sacrifices.
6. God is Almighty
My condition cannot be so desparate but this Almighty God is able to help me.
7. God knows all things [omnisicent]
Let me not bring an ignorant heart to God. This is the excellency of and understanding creature, to know the rule and end of its own actions. Come with a free, open heart to open whatever is in your heart to God. God does not require us to come and confess our sins so that He might know something that He did not know before, but so that there might be a testimony that you are willing that He should know all that is in your heart.
8. God is a God of infinite wisdom.
Let us be ashamed of our folly. Let us exercise the wisdom of right ends and right means toward those ends.
9. God is holy
We must be ashamed of our unholinessand strive for the holiness that is from the Lord because He is holy.
10. God is merciful
This should make me joyfully come into His presence as a God who is willing to do good to His poor creatures. And we will desire to be merciful to our brethren.
11. God is just
We should think [be apprehensive and sensible] of what you have deserved. Should cause us to think on our faithful Mediator. Fly to Him, and by faith tender up to the Father all the merits of His Son as a full satisfaction to His infinite justice.
12. God is faithful
Bring a faithful heart suitable in some way to this faithfulness of God, that is, a heart faithful with Him, to keep within the covenant you have entered into.
"Now, then, put all these attributes of God together, and there you have His glory. the infiniteness of His glory. The shine and luster of all the attributes together is God's glory. Let me look for glorious things, seeing I have to deal with such a glorious God."
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