Practical Reflections. (1.) Ps. 53:1, f.c., (2.) Isa. 29:16, l.c. 45:9, 10.  Rom. 9:20, 21. (3.) Ps. c. 3, 4.  Isa. 43:7.  Dan. 5:23, l.c.

2. Eternity and Immutability of God. How one of these involves the other.  How these attributes can be discovered by reason.  How by Scripture.  Gen. 1:1.  Deut. 32:40.  Ps. 90:2. 102:24-27.  Mal. 3:6.  Heb. 13:8.  Jas. 1:17.  Rev. 1:4. 22:13.

Consider these attributes separately:—­(1.) Eternity—­being without beginning or end—­ever being. (2.) Immutability—­subject to no change in his manner of being, his perfections, his thoughts, desires, purposes, or determinations.

Practical Reflections. (1.) How God appears to us in view of these attributes. (2.) How necessary they are to the character of the Supreme Ruler. (3.) How these attributes make God appear to the sinner. (4.) How to holy beings. (5.) What encouragements to prayer.  Suppose God were changeable in his character, feelings, and purposes, what confidence could be reposed in his promises? (6.) What feelings these attributes should inspire.

3. Omnipresence and Omniscience of God. (1.) Contemplate knowledge without limit, and presence without bounds. (2.) How these attributes are manifest from the works of creation. (3.) How declared in the Word of God.  Ps. 139:1-12.  Jer. 23:24.  Ps. 147:5.  Isa. 40:28.

Solemn Thoughts. (1.) In what light God is manifested by these attributes. (2.) How necessary these attributes to the Supreme Governor and righteous Judge of all. (3.) No individual so small or unimportant as to escape the attention of such a being.  Matt. 10:29, 30.

Practical Reflections. (1.) Danger of forgetting or losing a sense of the presence of God.  Ps. 9:17. 50:22. (2.) What feelings should be inspired in view of these attributes.  Ps. 4:4.  Heb. 4:13. (3.) How sinners should feel in view of them.  Job 34:21, 22.  Prov. 5:21. 15:3.  Jer. 16:17.  Amos 9:2, 3. (4.) What emotions these attributes should excite in the hearts of God’s children. 2 Chron. 16:9, f.c. (5.) How these attributes will appear in the day of judgment.

4. Omnipotence and Independence of God. (1.) How the omnipotence of God is manifested by the works of creation.  Job, chapters 38-11.  Reflect on the works of creation as a whole, and minutely and particularly, and also how they were made.  Gen. 1:3, 6, 9, 11, 14, 20, 24, 26. (2.) How the independence of God is manifested by his works.  Creative power must be underived. (3.) How the omnipotence of God is displayed, in his upholding and governing all things. (4.) How this attribute is declared in Scripture.  Gen. 17:1. 18:14.  Matt. 19:26. (5.) How omnipotence proves independence.

Practical Reflections. (1.) How God is hereby qualified to be the Supreme Ruler. (2.) The condition of sinners, while they remain at enmity with such a being.  Deut. 32:41. (3.) How Christians should feel, in view of this.  Ex. 32:32.  Rom. 9:2, 3. (4.) What they ought to do.  Acts 20:31.  Jas. 5:20.  Jude 23. (5.) Feelings of those who can view such a being as their Friend and Father.  Rom. 8:28, 38, 39. 1 Cor. 3:22, 23. (6.) Appropriate emotions on contemplating the omnipotence of God.  Job 11:7, 8. 26:14.  Ps. 145.