Genesis 17:22

And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.

Ver. 22. And he left off talking with him.] As man with his friend. Such honour have all his saints. Oh, speak it when I am gone, and preach it at my funeral, God dealeth familiarly with man, said that heavenly spark, now ready to be extinct a St Paul calls prayer εντευξιν, an entreparlance with God, 1Ti 2:1 and επερωτημα, the confident interrogatory or rejoinder of a good conscience toward God. 1Pe 3:21 The Persian monarchs held it a piece of their silly glory to keep themselves from their greatest subjects. Est 4:11 And Jupiter's image at Crete was made without ears. Plutarch gives the reason, Non enim convenit audiri ab eo quenquam, qui omnium rerum sit Dominus atqui princeps. A pretty plea for Baal! He is too great to talk with men. Our God thinks not himself so. He solicits suitors, and loves to be, interchangcably, solicited by them.

a Mr. John Holland, B.D. See my True Treas., p. 373.