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Let us meditate also on the immensity of God, which I think is much better expressed by His omnipresence. God is wherever any creature is or can be; knowing immediately by His own presence all that belongs to them, all that they are or can be, all that they do or can do, all that concerns them, whether their sins or their virtues, their pains or their pleasures, their hopes or their fears. It implies also that He does by His immediate power and influence support and govern all the creatures. In short, this immensity is nothing else but the infinite extent of His knowledge and His power; and it reaches to and beyond all places, as eternity reaches to and beyond all time. This the blessed above know and rejoice in, and take infinite satisfaction therein: having God, as it were, surrounding them on all sides, so that they cannot be where He is not; He is ever present with His all-sufficiency, ready to bestow on them all they wish or desire, while He continues their God forever and ever. They are under the blessing of His eye, and the care of His hand, to guard them from every evil and secure their peace.
Let thy flesh or spirit be surrounded with ever so many thousand dangers or enemies, they cannot do thee the least damage without His leave, by force or by surprise, while such an Almighty Being is all around thee; nor hast thou reason to indulge any fear while the spring and ocean of all life, activity, and blessedness thus secures thee on every side. If thou hast the evidences of His children on thee, thou possessest an eternal security of thy peace.
The World To Come - Isaac Watts
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