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Concerning, the knowledge of God, you have here,
Firﬁ,the extent of it: mil-7a, All things. Secondlyﬂ‘he
quality or kinde of it. Firft, It it is a clear or evident
knowledge. Allthingsaremnni. Naked. Secondly, It is
aftrlland thorow knowledge, All things are naked and
veqéaygAtoy-avd, open. Thirdly, It is a perfel? and infal-
lt'hle knowled c, All things are naked and open, 9'07; at-
mm?” unto t Eye: afhz’rn. Laftly, You have here
the God in Whom this knowledge is: It is he we: 3, than
a Ao’yQ‘, with whom whom to door.

The ﬁrl’t thing in the Text, is the extent of the

knowledge ofGod, it teacheth unto all things, with, .-

all things: A” thing: that‘arez'n Goal, and all things that
are without God. All things,Dz'vlne and not DivineAll
things, Angelica” or Humane : Heavenly or earthly : All
things good or evil, great or [mall : feoret or open. All
things that have humor have. not been .- that arc,or that
are “0‘ a that {119.11 be, or. that may be, or the: meter
(hall, never canbe: All thi s pail“, prefent, future,
contingent, impoﬂible, Mil-lgthlngy are naked andopen
unto the eye: of hint, with whom we have to doe.
' 2 ‘ Thitﬁcld'wonld be’too large For me to traeell over
at this time, I {hall therefore only thruft my fickle iﬂto-
one corner of it, and conﬁne my difccuriie unto that
knowled c which God hath of men and their aﬂeirs,..
80! only auﬁ: that Willbe moi} Pmﬁ 16, but alfo
becaufe' that feems. to be the very mafgp .y the A-
9081: mentions the Omnifcience of God in t is place,
that we might make application ofit toour {elves and
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Firﬂ, God knows every man and woman, that ever 1 .
were, or'ﬂlall be, God knows them before they are:
even in the wombe, even from eternity God Knows
them. pfal.139.15,16. My {abﬂme me: not bid oi» Hal. :3, .
thee when I ma made iii/tent, and anion/l} wrung t 6e— .
meat}; in t6: lame/i part: oft/2e tart/1. Thine eye: didﬁe my
{86:74am yet being unferfeﬁ, and in thy book were ale»)
member's written,&c. and from hence it follows, that
God doth fully [mow the ﬂnfullneﬂe of that ﬂue and
condition that every one is born in.

Secondly, God knows all the my“ and work: of 2.
mmfrom the birthand from the wmbe. 805% 3‘1 .41. J°b 3"“4 "
Dot/9 be not let my mm, all can»! all #9}?th .? No‘r
was this Gods ﬁngulat exaétneﬂ'e and obiervation over 3 ”11,”.
796. For 706 32.21,2a. Hit eye: are up» the my: of
mm ( any man every man) and befeetb 45 biegoingt.

Tbere it no darknelfeor ﬁrm of death, when the marker:

ofim' (tit; may bide ween/elves, 'Jerem.32.19. am: in ”3“?-
tmt el,migbty in works, for thine eyes are epenupw 4i tlit

my: of the [am ofme».

Thirdlyﬁod knows aﬂ theeﬂ‘eeelm of 411m :Ever 3,
word, everyfyllable that theton'gue ofau'yoaed'ot
matter, or. whifperﬁod knows itJﬁl. 1354;!” there Plat-39.4.
is“ net 4 word in my tongue)“ 10,0 Lord, the: fmefit 41-
together. No man,» that {peaks a word for God, his
Caufe or Pee e, but God knows it; No man that
{peaks 3 W01“ .againﬂ God,his Caufe or Peeple, but
God knows that too; 'let it be {poken never [‘0 clofély,

Itcretly. Etude tells us, that God willfat that atjday

execute judgement "upon a all, m, or all t eir bard

[feet/165 width M0, M3 agate)!- liﬁﬂ In)», Jude [5.

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mmgMataz. 36. therefore God knows“ them all... ::.;~ .r

Fourthly, God knows not ,onlythemyes’and the.)
words, but even the thoughtshofmm, .Ifa.;66.1‘_8, 1ka
their works andthtt'r tha'ughtk. I C hron.2 8.e. The: Laid
fearcheth all hearts, and mdtr/lam’tth all the imagittdtt'm
cy’the thoughts. ~ - , ‘ , 1 -. ., .. » -

Fiftlyﬁad doth-n01: only know. the myesﬁndr ﬁrth“,-
~and thought: of men prelim, at that inﬁant, While they

' are thinking, (peaking, _ doing theie things : but when

they arepaﬂ and ﬁrgottm by mm, the ' ‘ are Iﬁill re wt
in ththnmledge ofGod, 10b1,; .2 7-.» .217th 100qu nirrfan!‘
[J 1' 411’”! PM ”Wﬁmﬁﬂpmﬁt(‘a.;mark,a: memento)
you the heel: qujfeet, Job 14. 17.2311 tranfgrcffz‘m if
piled»; m a hag : and thaujawtjh apmixe iniquity,A'mos
8.7.. The Lord hath [mm by the exec/[mt] qfiatah, Surt'
1] I 171,11Wytrﬁrget-anyaftheirworhr. . .. . . W 4
Sixtly, As ,God knows ﬁll the; why“, word: and
thought: of uremia/entrant! pix/b To he‘knéws: all {M
m es, word: and thought: of'men that are to come.
1’ Al. 1 3).: , Thou uﬂdtrﬁdﬂdtﬁ 45. my thimght: afam of.
19.48 .8, I hate!“ that. thou 'wmldtﬂ dad 'wry treacherwﬁ
11.; ».QQd-1§§FW‘ what; lfrael would both think and we;
when once-they came into the land of gamma tells

itthem before eVer they camethcre. Deut. '31 .2 I. For '

I km theirgmhgimtiom which they 39 about, was up

‘htfore I hqtte hrbyghrthlpt imp the; lﬁﬂd’ﬂﬁCMer God -

’knew what, horrible aomra'gcs'Hmacl thld commit
when he fhould cometo be. King of Syriasand cellshim
of it, when he could fcarce think there was {uch villas
ny in his hean,21{ing.8 . x 2,1 356.011.5110»: net only what
men have clone?“ Ace, butwhactheyntll-Jaz.

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seventhly, God/mm: not only what men will do, but
he knows alfo What we» would do, if they were in fuch
or fuch cafes, .. upon allooeaﬁom, emergent and pofs’ill‘u-
Dew cagno/o’ltozon [bloom qme ﬁerz’ pogo»: "A ﬁngulo'r, [eel
etiom qme relpri ﬁerem, quovls hypotkeﬁfafli .- quota/1;:
oooaﬁonepropoﬁto, be tamer) oocaﬁoner [um inﬁnite,im2;
inﬁnitiér inﬁnite. God knew Abimelee/o would have de-
ﬁled himfelf and Sarah, if he had nOt‘with~held him,
Gen.2o;6. God knew the men .of Kaila/o would have
betrayed David into the hands of Saul, if he had flayed
among them, 1 Som.23.12. Here is one thats now 4
privatemamGod knowswhat he would l: and doe, if he
~‘were ’ advanced tozplace of publike ofﬁce and authority.
Here is one that islinked into a godlyﬁzmlly, hath gra-
cious kindred and Company,: God knows. what. he
would le, if tranﬁilmted into anOther family. There is
one that died in his infamy, God knows what he would

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have been and done, if he had'lived 40, or so, years. a

God knows All the my: of men, 124/}, prefer”, futurexom
tingent 7, poﬁiole; .

Eightly, God knOWS not only all-the mm, word:
and thought: ofmen,paﬂ, prefer‘zt, future,pollible: But
(in the ne‘xtplaceg God'knowsobe heart: of all men,
I King.8.39.For thou, we» thou only knowejl.tboloeort:-of
all meu.GOCl know: the beam of all men,what frame and
conﬂitution they are of, whether they be holy or ﬁn-
full, ﬁncereor hypocriticall'; therefore it is, that God
in Scripture is lo often laid to ﬂank, and try, and on-
dtr the beam of men. 1 Chm 2 8 .9317: Lord/earthen all
hearts. 1 Chro. 29, 1 7. I know olfmmy Gallo/74:41:01! tryeﬂ
the bear:,ond bajl plea/are in uprighmeffe. Prov. 1 7.3.1391?

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tryeththe hem. Prova r .2 .7 he Lard ponlere't/rthe heart.
Thefe three words offenreht'ng, trying, pondering, the
holy Ghaﬂ ufed to fet out that full, exaa, difcerning,
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Ninthly, As God knows the ﬂame and temper of all . '

men: hearts-,fo God knows all the purpoﬂes and intend.
ments that are in the hearts of men. In the verfe be«
fore my text,it is {aid of the word efGod, That‘it is a dif—
cerner of the thought: and intent: of the hem, xpﬂenae heu-
pw'awv (92 irreiav 73.9”“! Etﬁuwiﬂlt are pfOpCt’l the fecret
and inward workings of paﬂions and Ctions, and
zme, are the fecret and ﬁrﬁ workings ofmens undet-
ﬁandings anda rehenﬁons: Now bath the one and
the Other, Go fees them: and therefore that is ren-
dred as a reafon why the word of God dOth difcem
them. The word of God is edifeerner of the thought:
and intent: of the heart : for there i: no creature that i: not
manifeft in Ink ﬁght : hnt all thing: are naked “defeat,
even the intent: and purpofes of men: hearts. Job. 3.
r7. Thefe and thefe things, faith Elihn,God dOth, to
withdraw mnnﬁ'om hi: pnrpofe,&c.

Tenthly, God/em: the intimation: and deﬁm ofaIl
tun: hem:.1fa.3 2.6. The vtlde perﬁzn will ﬂesh widely,
and hi: hem will work iniqnity .- God fees the hearts of
wicked men, hankering and propending after their
wickedneiTe: his heart Will work iniquity. £zeh.33.
3 r . They come hefare thee a my people comet/1,4ndthe] ﬁt
hefore thee a my 1:: 1e ﬁtteth, and they hear thy worth:
he: the, will not due t em, but their heart geeth after their .
ewemfneﬂe. God faw, that though they pretended to
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the bent 1nd byas of their heart was after the world.
Their heart was toward their covetoufnesAndfo again
God feeth how the bent and inclination of his peOples
heart is towards him. 7er.12.3. Than 0 Lord lemme}? J‘s-”J.
me : thou heﬂfem m,4nttryed My heart toward: thee. All
their inward breathings, and fecret liftings up ofdeiire
after God, are known to him. 1141.38.59. Lordall m]
defire it hefore theegndrny groaning it not hid from thee.

Eleventhly, Gad know: all the deﬁgne: and Projeﬂ: Ir.

of all mens hearts. Imention thele as diﬁina from
pxrpefe: and intendmentr, becaufe mens purpolEs, are
{many times but fuddcn and flight mations, and oflit.
tle value with themfelves. B'ut deﬁgnﬂ and Wold-h
are deep and elaborate things, have more Rudy and

ains bellowed upon them : you {hall have a man

orging a deﬁgne, weeks, moneths,years; and working
it with that fecrecy,that as Alexander {aid ,if he thought
his ﬂlirt upon his back knew it, he would pull it off '
and burn it. But God knoweth all thefe deﬁgnes
and projeéts be they never {0 deeply laid,never foAJob mu.
610(er carried, 705 12.22. He deﬁazvereth deep thiﬂg: ‘ “’4'” ‘
“.1 .0fd0‘mﬂb I. Cone” . God xiii/[hath ﬁring relight
the hidden thing: of darken/(e, and wiﬂ make manifeﬂ the '
.‘anfeﬂr of the heart, Job 5. 12. He deﬁappeinteth the de—. 1"" W *-
v‘CG‘ (Ifthe eraftyfa that their hand: (were: perform their
work. An inf-lance of this you have, . Damn I. zomz-r. . Dana mo, .
Where God foretells the feverall projeﬁs and devifes “‘7"
whereby Amioehia {hould work himfelf into the king«
dom ofSyrie, and almoﬂ into the kingdom of Egypt, 4
and then 'Uerjlz 7. how he and Ptolemee King of Egypt 3
(ball projea to overqreach one anather : And hath theft
King; heartsjbaﬂ he to do Mfr/d4; M4 the} M (but he:

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after the warre between thel‘e two Kings, there'ﬂaall
be an rntervrew, or a treaty for peace (pretended at

hearts; no though they may entertain one anOther with
complements, and fair words; yet they are but hes

. and pretences, tlzey [baﬂ bat/affair lie: atone table. God

.knows all the deﬁgnes and proje‘as of Kings, and great
polititians, mm in their managing of wars, and in

cth all things: all perfons, all their aﬂianr, all their
mom’s, all their thug/ate, pa]! as well as prefent, fntnrt‘as
well as paﬂ, contingent or peg/fink, all their hearts, all
their intendment: and [taupe/2’5; all their inclinatiom
and diff , all their projeﬂ': and deﬁgner. And {0 you
fee in {o meafute the extent of the knowledge. 61'
God, awnings. The neXt words will {hew us the ma;
ture of this knowledge which God hath of all‘thrn'gs.
It is I . a clear and diffinél knowledge, 4” thing: are n'aa
Iced. It is 2. a full and tlmagb knowledge, all thing: are
naked and open. It is 3 .- an Intuitive, tnmpreben/iw’:
infallible knowledge, 45 Ming: are naked and open unto
1: eyes. -

Firﬂ,This knowledge which God hath of'aﬂ tiring-5’
it is clear and diffinﬂ. All things are naked. Men max
put fuch colour: and dreﬂe: upon themfelves, and waies,
as they may make a {hift to bide themfelves from the
qt: ofmn : But no pretences, no excufes can nia'ethern
from the ﬁg‘t ofGod, no more then a peece oftranfpa‘
rent glalfe can cover them from thebeam of the Sun-
Aﬂ thing: attended, unmasked, unclorhcd, their drcffc
and paint taken off. God _beholds all things in ting;

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mlml and ﬁmple‘realities. What a ﬁne colour had Si-
meon and Levi, for their urging circumciﬁon upon the 6“” 34"4‘
men of Shedxm -? they pretended Religion and the Law
, of their God; whereas in truth ,it was revenge and thirjf
of bloadaaed them, and this God faw, though Hamer
and sum law it not. What a colour did Ieroltoam- put , King. , u ”I
- upon his Idols which he {ct up at Dan and Babel, as 3o:- ,
if he {ludied nothing but the peoples cafe, and becaufe
it was too far for the peOple to go up to Hicmfalem,
therefore he would accommodate them withChappels
ofeafe. But the nakedtrutb was, adeﬁgne toeftablilh
the Kingdom to him and his, and to keep the people
from returning to the houfe of David, and this God
faw, and did [0 blaft him, that that which he intended
for the liability, proved the mine ofhis houfe and
Kingdom. What a face of (gal for God did icky put
. on in executing the judgement of the Lord Upon A—
1943 and his family": and when he hath done,can vouch
warrant from God for it. ‘7’ 17:2: it that which the Lord ,;K;ng,,,,,,
[fake by lakferwnt Elﬁn]: .- and can fa , Come fee my 36-
zeal for the Lord ofholls. But Go knew it was to
rid himl‘elf of competitors for the Kingdom, and to
allure the Throne to himfelf and his, that 785:! did
this, and therefore God threatens to avenge the Hood of
hand, Ho£1.4. on the boa/e of chu, becaufe though
he did the thing that God commanded, yet he made
the command of God but a colour for his own ends.
HOW pious and devout did the Phat/cc: feem l the peo-
- ple thought them the only Saints upon earth : but our
. §aviour tells them; that God looked upon them, net
according to what they did appear, but according to
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of holineﬂé, could not bleartbe eyes of God. So our
Luk-Iéli- . Saviour, Lﬂk.16.15. Te aretlyt’y whiclyjuﬂiﬁeyourfelm:
5%»? mm, but God [marvel/J your karts, for t/mt wkicb

- u Liglyly e/leemm’ amvng men, is aéomz'mtiarz in the/ﬁght

- OfGod. Men may be fuck artiﬁciall diffemblers,as not
only to be able to juﬁiﬁe themfelves before men, but.

to gain a high efieem. among them, and yet be ana-
bomination unto God who knows their hearts, and
unto whom all things are naked. ' i , g
All things are naked and open: Kai venvdgguapéz/dt‘ﬁ‘ .' 1
Cbryfoﬂmdlog, pertafo the Vulgar .- Refupimtafo £374me : intiméfdo- ,
tenth, {o Rem. Clzryjoﬁ‘ome faith, it is Manage £er “5' .- l”;
Jag/«aﬂoat. a map/gag taken from thets’kins ﬂayed off ,- ~
from the {acriﬁces :‘ (Sam :3 e‘néimckc. for as when? "
man (faith he) hath ﬂain the facriﬁce, and ﬁa'yedoffr . f
the skin, with at in!» amngAv'W'leidI, “all the ‘i‘nwards of .
thgbeaft are laid open and bare to any eye: fo all.
things, the very inﬁdeofthem,-are mk‘edand open-tine“ ,
to God: And Cameraim approves this explication of -
the word. Bcza carries it further, and faith, it is a met ’
mplm taken from beaﬂs, which are notonly ﬂayed,..,
but chin’d down the back-bone , 'Ut tamfm's (5» Mar
walk pawn; So another, Sim: cam mimalpcr cervical;
é‘fpimm dorﬁ ita dividitm‘, at fuiﬁer‘a anemia Patent,
Camera thinks it ametapbar, 2 re Paleﬂrz'oﬁﬁome make
the three words in my Text, three degrees of the
knowledge of God, widen, 'denudare,aperire, aching, ’4
may be [can (faith Atbmaﬁw) but netﬁagmked, orr
itmay be ﬁt» naked, but'not open. It is one thing to fee . . k
a {beep alive with the skin and the ﬂeece on, another; 1
thing to {eeit naked and ﬂayed 5 and yet a furtherthipg.
to fecitopeued :. andeextainly this ph’rafe dath ﬁgmﬁg’ ‘
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things, and bath theforce of that proverbial! fpeech,
intna,(3~ incnte. . i" . ‘

\ All things are not only naked, without clo_kes or
colours, but ript open, unbowell’d, anatomifed, turned

inﬁde Outward in the eye of God. There is nOthing {o ‘

referved; {0 hidden in man or fiono man, but it is open to

ithe’eyefofGod. Many men have their Arcana, their {6'
.cret waies of hill which they would nOt difcover, no '

not to their friend which is as their own foul, :but even
thefe are open unto God. Pfal.go.8. Tnon buff ﬁt our
iniquitie: before thee, wen onrfecret ﬁn: in tbe liglit of
tloy countenance. And there are two things in all men
which‘arexhidden (octets,~ the principlesﬁonz whichand
the end: for mono they aéi: o, thefeare like that path ,vof

_ which lob faith, tloc Vulture: eye bat/2 not jeen it, Job 28.

7. but even thefe are naked and open to the eye of
God. all things,are naked and open. .
All things are naked and open unto the eye: of him. This
llICWS that. the knowledge which God bath of all
things, is not an uncertain, conjefinrall, fauna know—
ledge -, but a certain, intuitive; infallible knowledge :
That it is nOtanimper/eﬁ‘, ﬂocceﬁiw, potential! know—
led e, bnta perfect, comprehenﬁve,a6iuall knowledge.
5&5th are naked and open unto the eyes of him.
_‘$ ' , his knowledge whxcliGod hath of all things, it is
(Ifay) not an uncertain, conjeélurall, fallible know-

ledge, buta certain and infalliéle knowledge 5 a know- ~

ledge that hath init, evidentiamgé'certituolinem. The
knowle:-:ge of the eye is the mofi certain and evident

. knowledge o, we faygvsz non fallitnr circa proprinnz alv-

jeétumdt’ the argon and the medium be rightly difpofed,
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a mans eye cannOt deceive him 5 therefore we fay,wc"
wrll beleeve our own eyes againﬂ all the world.Now

Gods e e is (as I may fo Fay,) borh the organ and me;

diam o hisfeeing: We fee things by the light of the
Sun, but the Sun i‘eeth all things by his own light, Io.
cloth God. All that is in God feeth, and God {eetht
all that is, and is net deceived, becaufe he needs 110::
light from without himfelf to fee by, for be it is that.
feeth,and from himfelf it is that he feeth.

, Again, This knowledge which God hath of all.
things, it is 11m apetentz'all, partinll, imperfeé? know-

ledge, but an ee'i‘nall, eamprelzenﬁve,ferﬁéf knowledge. ‘

   

God with one inﬁnite, individen’aét of his underﬁand—, '

ing, knows at once, all wing: that ever were, are, or .
ﬂu]! ée, yea inﬁnite tiling: elm never were, nor ever _

[ball 5e. God doth no: take up the knowledge of
things aswe doe, per elifewﬂm, or perﬁeeeeﬂienew, of:
per eenryoﬁtz’enem. God doth not know, nnnm P0]; “‘
lind,one thing aﬁer an0ther; nor nnnne per elind, one

thing by another 5 but his inﬁnite underftanding grafps .

all things, ﬁnznl drfemel .- to his inﬁniteeye all things
are nakedandopen at one View. God dothneither look
back upon what is pal}, nor looks forward upon what
is to come, nor look right forth upon what [So before
him,as our manner is, but in a manner farre differing
from. what we are wont to doe. God dorh not remove
his thoughts from one thing to anOther, bur. feeth all
things altogether unchangeably. God doth not fee
things.0therwife with his minde, then with his eye,
for he is not made up of foul and body.Nor dOth God
{Ce things orherwife now then he did heretofore, or
then hewill hereaftergfor in Gods underﬁanding there

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are net thofe differences of time pafi, prefent,and to
%come, asthere are in ours; for in his incomporeall
View, all things are prefent together, thus .Auguﬂme. 06“,,“ m,
The eye,of God, my brethren, is not like the eye of a» fungi-”qua
man, that cannOt fee at a diﬁance, or cannot look upon “1"“ ‘1".‘4 “b"
, quepmfemeﬂa
many things at once, ﬁxedly 2 No, the eye of God (9» 1mm,
feeth the remOteﬁ things, becaufe he is every where: quid 1» omi'

the molt fecret and inward things, becaufe heis in all 3,3741% ,6”:

things -,the molt fubtile things,becau{e his eye is (harp, fplcax :73, at
and piercing the greateﬁ things, becaufe all things are 3’3“"? 3“};
in him. The eye of man may be hindred from feeing, ﬁlm.“ Zing]; dc
or deluded in its ﬁght, either by blackneﬂe of dark, 5. 'viﬂwe.
nelTe,depth of night, thickneffe of clouds, alteration of ﬂxﬁfuofﬂ’f
ofayre,diﬁance of place, indifpoﬁttion’of the objea' or ﬁm fame
organ,fcattering of the fpecies,. change of the mcdeum, Prxrediri'ac Ja-

fwiftnefle of m0tion, and an hundred fuch impedi- jgﬁég’ﬂrm‘
meats, inward, out-ward, naturall,artiﬁciall. It is not proﬁmditatenol.
{0 with the eye of God, who alone by his own inﬁnite Maw/WW"-

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and uncreatedlight,chafeth away darknelle,difpels the ”one am, to".
night, mlightens obfcurityﬁtc. his eye is neither hin- ginquimte 10"} '

.r - 4 - inequalildte 0b. -
dred by too much neerneﬂ‘e, nor. by too much remore .eM’turme,

mile of the obje&,-nor is it wearied with continuall bumarum,diﬂ!'.
feeinO. He alone doth nOt borrow his ﬁght,.neither MtiMe‘ﬁecie-

, , . - , rum velocitate
from the objeét nor from the fpecres, nor from light mmg,’ gm,

turn id gena: iﬂuﬁonib'u ac impedimentia infernia, externit, naturalibur (9‘ artiﬁcidtih
112m at yuﬂighﬂnboainum adi¢alorm- N on item ocufm 'Dei, quifolu: [am-PP? Wﬁ'ﬁ‘
{am (9’ inueatumslumen, elimma tenehaaﬂtﬁtﬂt't mammcaﬂigimm dtlfgpat, obﬁwitatem
'"M‘étawn/umit amber, caelumq', aiéremq: ﬁrenat. Sc‘lu: i113 nequetu‘mni abjeﬂi PTOPiﬁqWM’c ’
Veiﬂnfiltw,nequé langtnqaitazefupemtur, nec Iaﬂfcit diuturmtate exertinj net bumomm al-
teratione inﬁct’turé‘alutnan malice: cognition»: [uam fuel ab. objeé’laz’y‘ [parity-vet a ftnﬂWi
lace (notore, 'vel amatu (9’ media. Solar non meat/um?” tampon: mm cometur lawman,
concluditurttrminomon excluditur impedimento, no» debilitatur (eniofnon canuzrpitur rumba. ,
non decipitur arte, nonfafcinamr pmﬂigijt, fed wider quocung’; loco. at: tempotexomnw cu- ~

' ram (9" occupattottem, omne (warm (9‘ malum, quodryi‘ 4403mm mam", fqﬂum, immune,
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mited to time, nor, conﬁned to place,&i. but he fees
at ailtimes, and in all places : ‘ ev eryendeav our, evei

' employment, every wrong, every word,deed,attempt,

thought: All t/Jiﬂgs are ( at once) nakeél 21ml 0pm Maia
the eye: of/yim,wit]1 wl’ynmwe 174w ta doe, ‘
0f lyim with when; we hat/eta do. Thefe words fet

‘ out the perion in whom this knowledge is, and that is

he, we}; 3-» ﬁlm-3 Adj/Q“. The words are diverﬂy tra‘nﬂa-
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The Syriac/e renders itth‘us, of him ’to whom we

, muff give an account. And this fenfe Cbryﬂiﬂom gives

of the WOI‘dS, mg}; 3v 5,1,5 3 o' 10");9', «Mi «7%, imaginary.” J‘Em e’v,‘
Gamma: mmyum, with Whom we have to do, for un-
to him we mutt give account of'what wee havedone.
So then it is worth our conﬁdesing, that all things are
naked and ohen to the eyes of him, unto whom every

" one of us mutt give account ofhimfeif.

The Vulgar Latine reads it, aa’quem 1405135 ﬁrmo; and
f0 Ernfmm and Camerariw,qaem alloquimur, whom we
{peaked And this alfo is worthy our confideration;
Everytime' we come to {peak to God in prayer, that all
things are naked and open unto the eyes of him’, to
whom we are f peaking when we arein prayer. '

Calvin and 3&5: render it, quirum merry} Negotizfm,
which is according to our tnnﬂation‘, With Whom we
have to do. The whole life of a Chriﬁian is a Nego-
tiarim With God. {rug-i? 73?:M'19uyde‘niéarois, Our [1‘3ka
our buﬁneffe is in heaven, with God, even then when
we think we have to do With this, and that man, even
then wehaveto do with God. In every thing wedyé,
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this, andtwithall remember that all things are. naked
and open unto theeyes of him, With whom we have;
to do. . ' ' ' ‘

Other-s from the connexion 0F t‘hisverf‘e with the ,
former, wherein the Apoﬁle had been {peaking oFthe .

' Miniﬁry of theGofpel, and the efﬁcacy thereof, give

this fence of the words, Dena“ qnimm nah; re: eﬂﬂnnnda

awn verbs 41% no“: re: (momma Per/[Jim .- God with
whom we have to do when we have to do with his.

* word, feeth all things. Now o-that we could Re-

member this: That when we have to do with the
word of God either to handle, or tohearrt, we have

, to do with .God :, and withall remember, Mara/l

ﬂung: are naked andopen unto we eyes of him, wit/g whom—
we baa/£10 do, when we are { peaking ‘or hearing this
Word. And thus you have the meaning ofthefe words,

all things are naked and apm unto 1/2: eye: of lyim, wit/1. -

whom we have to do. _
And it mull needs be thus. Firfl becaufe of the
inﬁniteperfeﬂz’on of God. God is abeing of inﬁnite 6,.
feé'r'z'on. Allan/lander and, perﬁﬂ‘ion: are 111 Go rife
teramoﬁ eminent and inﬁnite manner; and therefore
as life; and power, and goodneﬂé,‘ and'other excellenrie:
are-in God,fo alfo knowledge.Which-is one of the highi
eﬂ excellencies and perleﬂions of life, is in him, in
inﬁnite perfeaion. If there were any thing which
God did not know, God could not be perfec‘fnor 12412-.
p} in his life and being- . '
Secondly, This is demonf‘trated from Gods omni-
I: once. God-is in all things, and therefore knows

al‘lthings. God after an unl'peakable manner doth e.»

very-where ﬁll all things which he lrath-made,fpirits,"_
bodies” .

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Qui tenetomnia,
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amid, [up to
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bodies, things that are above, and things that are bee
neath, things in heaven, and things in earth,things »
that have life,and things that have no life. Thou holdv ’
ell all things, and ﬁlleﬂ: all things,and ' encompaﬂ‘eﬂz- ,
allthings, and art above all things, and fuﬂainefi all
things: neither doﬂ thou ﬁll them on the one ride,
and encompaffe them on the other, but by encompalZ
ﬁng doﬁ ﬁll them, and by ﬁllingtdoft encompaffc
them: by fuﬁaining them, thou art above them, and ,
by being above them, thou dofl iuflain them. Needs '
muft that God that thus ﬁlls all things,know all thingS-
Si animo 46‘ meme {pheram contemplzmur magnitudz'zoe ac
virtute inﬁnitam, cujm tantrum “My; ﬁt, oirmmferentid
nufquam: Suppofe we in our thoughts,a {pherc 0f
inﬁnite greatneﬂ‘e and eﬂicacy, wbofe Center is every
where, but hath no circumference; it will necelTarily
follow, that what ever thing or things be beﬁdes this
fphere muft neceffarily be within this fphere,encomv
paired by it,and conteined in it. And all things exif-
ting within this fphere it will follow, 3:721} agi 190/]!
nod 461'!le nonfmriamr, There is no action nor mode
on but this fphere will perceive it. Such is God, a
fphere of inﬁnite Being, Life, underﬂandingﬁncome
pairing all things,ﬁlling all things,and therefore know-
ing all things. David proves God omnilcient from
his omniprelence, Pfal.134.2. Tboa know/Z my down-
ﬂttiugmy npriﬁng, thou underﬂandeﬂ my t/zougbt: ofom
.- There :3 not a wordin my touguc,6ot,Lord,t/Jon boon”
cﬂit alltogct/m' .- there is his acknowledgement of GodS'
omnifcience. But then, thou compo/(cf? my pot/71,41”,
my lying doom, verf. 3. Thou b4}? oefct m éobiﬂdt
Motion, Vcrﬁs . and w/Jﬂber ﬂmﬂ I go {m My ﬂirt?!
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~.They are acknoWledgements of Gods omniprefence

as demonﬁrations of his» omnifcience. And {‘0 God
himfelf argues, Jena 3 .24. Can an] hide himfeb’infecret
place: that I [hell not [be him, ﬁtith the Lord .9 do he: I
ﬁﬂ heavmaxdearth .? ' _

T-h’irdly, This omnifcience of God is further de-
monflrated, from that inﬂuence which God hath into
all things. It is God that gives life, being, m0tion,

'.p0WCr,a€tivity, aétion, unto all things, A&.17.27.

In-him we live (we! mom and hweaur being. All things
that have being, God gave that‘bein to them, all
things that have life, God gave that li e to them; all
things that move, God gives that metion to them, n0t
only the power, but the at} o, no man can move a hand
ora foot to. any aaion ,‘ no man can move his tongue
to fpeakaword; no man can move in one thought
of his heart, without Gods concurrence to that meti-
on: There is no action or mOtion of any creature
man or Angel, but God concurs to it, by way 0f (“Pi
port and cooperation as it is a naturall action, or moti-
on , by way of fpeciall aﬂiﬁance, if it be a tacious and
holy aétiono, by way of permiﬂion an fufferance,
if it be ﬁnfull.‘ Evenin our ﬁns, the aaion, 4:421 462%,
is from God, the aivow'd irregularity of it is from out
felves. Now this is a further demonﬂration that God
knows all thinos ; and this argument alfo Davidufeth
in the 139. PﬁLl 5,16. And thus nowI have done
with the explication of the Text, and demonﬁration
of the truth conteined in it; Icome now to the appli-
cation of it, .

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point. {hall be for Information. 'Alltmfi are minim! '
open unto God. God is Omniﬁ‘imt; Iffo,then this in-
‘formes us, that fefw Clm'ji : is Gnd,and the holy Giza/i is
God ,for iefu dirt]? is ammfciem,and the 17on Glyn/i is
0mm/‘Iwﬁg; Omnifcience is an incommunicable at-
tribute,aﬁd therefore the fervants ofGod from thofe
,Scriptures that attribute omnifcience to Ch‘riﬁ and
to the holy Ghoi’t( as many Scriptures you know do)
have fucceifefull and invincibly maintained the Deity
of Chriﬂ: and o the holy Ghoﬂ, againﬂ the blafphe'—
mous oppugnersol-in . befoﬂm applyesthefe words
of my text unto Clm‘ﬂ, meivii adamant-magma
5M BMW he {peaks of the Sonne, and 'faith, with
whom .we have to do. ‘1 {peak nor: this as if I fufpeé‘t-
ed 3.0)? mthis auditory guilty of {o foul a crime as the
dam! o£ theGmlhedof chm, or of the bail] char:
( thoughl fear, there is as much of this bla‘i‘phemyin’
5‘54”“ at this day, as ever was ﬁber: the name of
Chrtﬂ was known in England.) But I {peak it only
to let youﬁe,how1pious,and»juit itisinthe Honoura-
ble houfes, that as they have begun to declare their:
zeal for God in makingalaw that men may no 1011 at
imp»? wickedly, and pertinatiouﬂy ‘blafpheme . is
glorious dimer: and attributes: So to thew the like
zealfor the glory ofhis eoernall Sonne, and Spirit. .
This is the will of God,~dm allurﬁﬂweuldlymour I)»
So», (W04! 11):} beam the Fewer, he :54: £030»er not

Slit-imbmbnottbe Fuller, Joh.s.33.- . ,
Inothe, daies ofatndoﬁw, the Ania: through his
coqmvence'were gram very bold, and nor only had
their meetings inConﬂamimple, the chief City of the'---
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fm, and no than could prevail with the EmperOur to,
lay refiraints upon them, becaufe, faith the Hiﬁorian,

' he thought it, nimbfemm é“ imimm: if: 5‘ at length

Comes” to Canﬂaminaﬂe one Amphiloclyiw BiihoP of
Iconium,a'poor Town ,an honefi-man but no great p0“.

.rlititiaa for the world, he petitions the Emperour to

teitrain the Arriam, bLit in vain: Next time he comes
to-the Court, ﬁnding the Emperout and his [oh Ar-
radix; '( whom he had lately created. joint Emperour)
ﬂanding together, he dOth very low obeyfance to the
father, but none to the (On; but coming clofe
up to him, in a familiar manner ﬁroketh him on the
head and faith, Salve rm‘ﬁﬂ, God fave you ‘ my childe.
The ol‘d‘Emperour taking this for a great affront, be-
ing fullof rage, bids turn the man out of doors: As
the ofﬁcers were dragginghim forth, he turning to the
Emperout faith, 44’ 1mm modm exiﬂima, (inventor,
duo.- Make account, 0 Emperour, that thus,even thus
is the heavenly father difpleafed with thofe that
do not honour the Son equally with the Father:
which the Emperour hearing, calls the BiihoP back
again, asks him forgivenelfe, prefently makes a law
againﬁ Arrimifmc; forbids their meetings and difpu-
tations,coa¢ﬂitutzi (Jami. Here was ableffed artiﬁce,by
which the zeal of this Emperour was {uddenly turned
into the right channell : and he was taught by his ten-
derneife over his own honour, and the honour of his
Em}, to be tender over the honour of God and his Son

e us. ' ‘

. In the fe‘cond place this, That 4” things are naked

'and open unto the eye: of God, confutes thofe. that

fay, God feeth net, knows net ﬁn, And fecondly,
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Phil, Such as fay, God feeth n0t ﬁn. God (fay they) 4 i i

knows all things by knowing himfelf, and by. looking

upon himfelf,_feeth all things in himfelf, tortqttomiin -

[,beoulo. Now God, fay they, cannotfee ﬁn in himfelf,
for it is not in him, therefore God cannot fee (in.‘ Be-
ﬁdes, Scripture faith, Huh. I . I 3. Thou art of purer eyes

then tohehold evil,arzdoortjl not look or: iniquity. I anfwer, ‘

God doth know the ﬁnsof men, not as ifour ﬁns were
repreﬁtnted in the Divine goodneffe, tortqttom in idea,
or in [Paulo .- but ﬁn being aiptivation, that (as all 0-
ther privations)is known by the contrary habit or
9.6%, at oooitatofor owﬂtm', é‘ tenth” per lumen, {'0 God
.knoweth ﬁnger wjrttttem opfoﬁtom, é' or horaitotomoa

o7?!“ oppoﬁti: and as for that text in Hoh aka/c, it is to be ‘

underﬂood, n0t defciomt'ojimpliotk intelligentio, but do
foientt'o oonjzmo‘i‘o cum opprohotiorzo : Dow non cognofoit
potato per [otontiom approhotiom'o .- and of this know-
ledge the text fpeaks: That God did- fee the ﬁns and

violences of wicked men,that' text tells 5 and the Pro- ,

phet under a temptation, ,did almoft imputc unto GOd
an approvmg. of them, which was contrary to his na-

ture. Thou art ofptmr eye: the» to hohold evil: and-64¢ ‘

not look upon iniquity, wherefore lathe/Z thou upon them that
(1:41 truchtrouﬂ] and/201d“? thy fang“: .? .
Secondly, This confutes thofe that fay, God {eeth
not the ﬁns of his juﬂiﬁed children. Certainly, if all
thing: are noted and 017mm“ the, eye: (f 6041,, then CVCH
the ﬁns of his own deareﬂ: Saints and children. No,fay
{ome,by no means -, their ﬁns are all covered . And the
great text they pretend unto, is that, Numha 3.1 I . Ho

Numb-.23.: :. hath not {ionjoiqrzit} infrtooh, nor heheldperwrﬁuﬁo its

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Iﬁrael. Now true it is, the ﬁns ofjufiiﬁed perfons are
covered: David, Paul, tell us (0: but withall theytell
us how : norﬁmply and abﬁrlstely, {‘0 as God cannotfee
them, this would argue im otency and imperfeftron
in God; but frmndum quid, 0 covered as God Will not
impute.thcm.And for that which is their Lom- palmaa
rim,itis nevera whitto their purpofe, He (with my???
iniquity in 74:05, am lie/xii! pervhneffe in I/rael, {04.15
ordinarily read: but a reverend and learned Authour,
hath with much dexterity and ﬁrength proved,“
fhould rather be read, He hath not ﬁen, or will n0t
fee, or cannot endure to. fee any wrong againft 74606,
or any grievance againﬁ Ifmel (for fo the words
UN : and ‘77-}? : there ufed , doe often ﬁgniﬁe
trouble and grievance) as he hath at large proved from
Scripture,and the context dOth exceedingly favour this
interpretation. . '

But take the words in the ordinary reading,
they will no way favour this opinion : He hath
not feen iniquity in Iacoé, nor beheld perverfneile in
Ifraebof whom doth Balaam {peak this! only ofbelee-
vers.ofju{iiﬁed perfons r N0,of all the hundred thou-
fands of Ifrael, that were now before him uponthe
plain; of all the mixed multitude that came up out
of Egypt, which fure were not all belcevers .nor jul‘ti-
ﬂed perfons; therefore the meaning of the place is,
that at the prefent there was no common {in lying up-
on the people, no Idolatry ( for of that many under-
ﬂand this place ) nor any other peccatumﬂagram, that
might provoke the Lord againﬂ them. God faw no
Wickedneffe in the Camp, that might caufe him to
pour a-curfe upon them. . (30d {aw none, becaufe they

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had ﬁnce theirexpiation and atonement Committed
none. if they had,God would have [em it 5' for in the '
25. Chapter, when the people fell to whoredom and
Idolatry, God could quickly fee it and avenge it, and
yet the perfons remained {till the fame. Thefe very
perfons of whom it is (hid, Chap: 3. Goa/ﬁrm no Ini-

‘ 4"?) in them : in thele very perfonsr God jam and 4‘
waged iniqxit] within a very'fhw daies. And certain-
ly whatever mifapprehenﬁons of God and ofﬁn men
may have now, the Saints of God before us have had
far other apprehenﬁons. 0 Gait/m: kmeﬂ myfuli/Ir-
Inf/E, and 1:}nt me not Iridﬁm t/xefaith David, Pfal.

Pral.69,,,- 69. 5' . 71m; ajtfet aarjim bcfm rim, wen oar/25m (in:

in the light a My cmtemme,faith Lil/lifts, Pfal . 9 o .m .

PM 90.:0. If we bawﬁégottm t6: Name If our God, arﬂrctrbm’aat

our hard: to a] falﬁ god/ball not Godfearrla 1/th bat? f0"

5: known/2 t]?! ﬁrm: of our bungfaith the Church, Pﬂ

44 20,2 x. Dorh God by his Spirit maintain a warre

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" 1005 t Dorh he help his children to fee, and loath,
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gined, that God {hould caufe his children to Pee that
which himfelf feeth n0t :' Doe not the ﬁns of Gods
children fall under the counfel and decree ofGod c'
are they nor bounded and ordered by God, and (hall

we yet fay, God doth nor fee them 1'
ff]? 3. But I come to athird (Ne; and that is, to ”prove
the great and common forgetfullneﬂe of this glorious
attribute of the Lord our God. Not to fpeakof the
common fort of men, that are without God in the
world,that live more like AIM/l: then Clmﬁmnmorc
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like beat-ff: then mm; but give me a man even among

thetbcit ofmen‘, that dark: full 3: beieeve, conﬁdet, te-.
memberﬁm prove this mat-hr. u!!! flying: arena/added

' open unto the eye: afbim, with whom we batteito do. Do we

when we have to doe with God in prayer, remember,
that all thing: are mked “dope” unto the eye: af (rim,
with whom we. have to doe ,2 was‘a’v ﬁgipaadyﬁ‘; a: Our pm.
parations,motives, affeétionsﬁifpoﬁtions,aims, .aﬂare
ﬂaked endopm unto his eye: .- doe we remember this '3'
and can we rufh Upon that duty fo unpreparedly, f0
inconﬁdetately «3 can we be in the duty,'with wandet4
ing, dead, ﬁreightnéd hearts «3 We have to doe with

God in the bearing of’ his word, and doe we here re; .

member, thin“ ﬂying: are naked and of“ meta tlze e :3.
gsz'mwétb w , we been to do: ? Doe we beleeve,d’oe
We remember. that the God with whom we have to
do,knows why we hear,and how we heartfeeth what
thoughts and what aﬂ‘ee‘tions are ﬂirting in our hearts,
while we are hearing his 'word : and is it poﬂible we
{hould heat the word with fcorn, with (lighting, with.
indignation; withdifdain t’ The good Lord be met--
cifull. unto us, that even in thokthings wherein we:
have to doe with God, we forget the eye of that God"
with whom we have to doe, and let our eye ﬂip off"
from him,whofe eye isevet upon us.What do we then
inthe common aaions of our lives ‘3 in our buying,
felling,converfe with men, communing with Our own
heartseWhete is the man,that fo {peaks,and fo thinks;
and f0 lives continually,' as in the eye of that God, to
~Whom d our thoughts, word: and may“, ere ﬂaked am!
Open. Notthat we ate-ignorant of that ail-feeing-eye
(if-God, which the very Heathens had fame agitate-
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henﬁons of: and therefore S mm could give this rule,
Sic e'irv: cumﬁomiaibm tanquam Dem wideatjcﬁqaere
cum Deo,tauqu4m 60min“ audiam. 50 live with mem,aS
if God law thee, {0 {peak to God, as if men heard A
thee. There is fomething of the notion ofrhis from
the light of nature in all-our hearts,:and much more by '
reVelation from the Word of God: but alas, we know
and doe not : none of us all live up to the full ofout
knowledge in this particular, the Lord humble us and
pardon us. ,

In the fourth lace, This truth that all thing: are :24!
[red and open to t aye: qf bimmitly whom we have to d”, w
it {peaks Temmr. Firfl, unto all ﬁnners in generall.
Secondly, unto fome ﬁnners more efpecially.

Firf’t, This that A17 thing: are naked at! open mm the
eye: of [aim wit/1 who»: we have to do -: how may it ﬁll' '
with terrour the heart of every ﬁnner,of every one that
goeth on in his trefpaﬂes «3 you know what 705 {peaks .
of lome ﬁnners, the murtherer, the thief, the adultcv
rer, that it is to them the greatefl terrourthat can be,
to be difcovered in their ‘wic-kednefTe: If 4 manﬁc.
them<faith he) the; are intbe ternary oft/1e ﬂudm of
death, Job 2-4. I7. Thefame is true in proportion,
of every other ﬁnner. What ﬁnner is there that
hath fuch a heart of Adamant, and forehead of btafIE,
as would not be exceedingly troubled, to have allhiS
ﬁns that ever he committed, or thought, intended,
purpofed to have committed, to have them all imme‘
diately publifhed, and laid Open before this wholtf
congregation, it would notalittle trouble him: well
ﬁrmer, this truth tells thee that, which if thou hall:
noc wholly put of man, will trouble thee inﬁnite-v

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1y more: It tells thee that All My wickedueﬁ'zk naked "
ahdepen mm God. It tells thee that alltéy t/roﬂgkts, all ‘
‘ .i'thy proud, .c0vetous, unclean, ﬁlthy, abominable
' thoughts; all the thoughts that ever thou hadﬂ: in thy
heart, they are Ail naked. and open ”mot/2e eyeofGod.
All thy oaths, bla{phemies,bitter,evirulent, malicious,
unchaﬁ, unfavory, ungodly fpeeches, that ever fell
from thy uncircumcifed lips: they erre‘alléeﬁretbe eye
of God. All thy wantonneﬂe, luxury, impurities, ﬁl-
thineffes net to be named 5 allthy cruelty, opprellion,
injuﬁice, bribery; all thy ﬁns how fecretly foever
contrived, and committed, they are almkedandepe»
unto the eye of Gael. Thy midnight ﬁns, thy clofet
ﬁns, thy Curtain ﬁns, thy bofome ﬁns, thyheart fins,
all the {ins thou halt committed, and all the {ins
thou 5 wouldit have committed, they'ar'c a” naked and
open to the eye: ofGoel. Doll thou beleeve this 1' if nor, -
thou art an‘ Atheiﬂ, if thou doll, and yet trembleﬂ:
not, thou art Iknow not what to call thee: if
poﬂible,thou art worfe then an Athei/l, that beleeveft
all thy ﬁns to be this day naked and open mm: theeye: of
him witlywlmm we blue to do, and yet thou tremblelt‘. 1
nor. Doeﬂthou knowipoor-man, worm, doeft thou
know with what an eye God loOks upon thy ﬁns 5' It
may be thou thinkef’t God beholds thy ﬁns asGaﬂie be;
held the Jews abuﬁng ”and beating Soﬂbene: before the
judgement lbat, But Gallie cared for none of tbofe things.
And thinkeft thou lb of God e Let me tell thee then,
Firft, God behOIds and looks upon all thy-ﬁns, with
a {trio}, watchfull, obferving, cenforious eye, Prov. I 5.‘
2.1 , 71x waye: ofmen are before tbe eye: ofthe Lord, and be Pm“ 5- z ‘9‘
, pendent]: 411.1713 going}; .God dath {o ilriétly and'exs
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one of them : 1 54791.: . 3 . God on Godof knowledge, my“ '
by him oo‘ﬁom on weighed. God weighes and obfetveég,

how much wilfullneﬂe, prefumption, contempt of

,God is in every ﬁn, how heavy and heinous thy ﬁns

are. That eye of God unto which all thy ﬁns are na‘
iced and o _ n, it is a ﬁti&,ebfetving,pondering eye.

Secon 1y, It is a pure, holy, fevere eye, an eye H5“.

ming with" indignation againit every fin. Homag-

TM: or; ofpurer e ”ohm-to éelzoldevilﬂndoam‘? not look 1
upon iniquity, In eed, if God {aw thy ﬁns with fuch;
an eye as men doe-,it need not much trouble thee. Met!- .

’can fee thy ﬁns and Wink at them o, fee thy fins,and like
thee never the worfe for them. But 0 couldeft thou
fee that angry, ﬂaming, rovmgcﬁoﬂ eye wherewith God
ﬂeeth all thy ﬁns, itwould make thy heart even 6136
within thee. I have read of, Morita and Attila,and’

fome others, that they have had fuch fiery fparltling. _
eyes,as that when they, have been fet upon by enemies, .
the very {parks of ﬁre darting out of their eyes, hath“ ,

ﬁtuck fuch atrombling into the hearts of their aﬂ’aie

la'ots,as hath made them let fall their weapons. 0 that'-

thou couldeﬁ fee, with whataneye God looks upon
thy ﬁns, 32:“ “©- ‘e'xﬁw 3m, God hath arevengingm
8?? :. one afpeét of this eye. of God,is able to make the
WhOh canh to tremble, Pfd. 104.32.. He loo/act}; M‘
the embed it ”Mimi, and-{hall this eye of GOd
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, ,fthele ﬁns of thine, which his own‘eye hath n. For
#Goa' will 'hring every work into judgement, whatever} je-
cret thixgmhether it he good or evil, Eccleﬁertt. " Ipfe
autem (he hdex erit (he Tqizk,&c. And he himfclfwill
be both the fridge and the witneﬁ'e, whom'no uilty
Confcience can elta e,for allt’hingsiare naked an open
unto his eyes, fait Auguﬂine .- and again,will God
when he comes to judgement, call in witneﬂ'es to be
informed by them what manner of perfon thou art '3
' how can he be miﬁaken in judging whata one thou
am, who knew before thou wert, what an one thou
Wouldeﬂ be e God will queﬁion thee, and nor Others
'c'oncerning thee,’and God will queﬁ'ion thee, not to
get information from thee, but to ut confuﬁon upon
thee. And,0 my brethren,think,IPbefeech you, how
great confuﬁon will fall u on every {inner in thatday,
when the righteous and he y God, {hall from his own
ﬁght and knowledge, convince the drunkard of his
.' drunkenneile, the adulterer Of his uncleanneffe9 the
: perverter of Juﬂice of his bribes, and every ether ﬁn-
‘ ner,oftheirleverall, fecret,perfonallﬁns: when God
{hall fay unto them, as Eltﬂm did to Gehezi, Went nut
my heart with thee, when the man turned hath ﬁom
his chariot to meet thee? So when God {hall fay
to thee in that day, Went n0t my heart with thee,
when thou and thy companions in wickedneffe met
, in fuch and fuch a place «3 when you lotted, acted

‘ fuch and fuch villanies, did not I flan by and look
on '.' 0 would proud and ﬁnfull man think of thi}
Eyegnd this day, how would it make him come down,
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A- Sernzm preachedett/iefltlmetb'lyfaﬂ, w. ‘ I ,.
In tum great, dreadfull and aria judgement,- w'e {hall
{land naked,.forrowfull, trembling (faith [Augaft‘im ):

the Angels and Thrones of Heaven 'ﬂaallzbe about us; a, 7

the books and records of our lives {hall be openéda , .
every man prefently, lhall give an account of- himfelf,
of all histhoughts, words, actions, ofallthe ﬁnsthat
ever he hath committed, by night or by day : Thisisat
judgement (faith he) Wonderfull to fee,and dreadful“ ‘0
hear: The thoughts and remembrance of it, made
fuch deep imprefﬁons upon the heart of this holy man,
that in an0ther place he faith :, Behold in what danger
I Rand continually, though I do not continually think.
of it 5’ and the more wretched I, that I can forget infer.
God always feet/1 me and all my ﬁm, a {triét fentence al—
waies awaits me ; in this condition I am, when I
wake, and when I. ﬂeep, when I -laugh,landwhen I am
fad; When I am proud,and when I am palﬁonatebﬁcfam
ﬁmper & uéig}, thus I am alwaiesand everywhere. 0
could ﬁnners when they are in .r their pangs.ofpride,and

a ton, and mirth, and madneﬂé, with Auguﬁine, cone
ﬁder themfelves as let under the eye of that God,
whole fevereﬁ’mace they mull abide, it would quell
and awe them.

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Matt. “p.22,

Secondly, This truth, that aﬂ thing: are nakea’anda'

[m emu/2e eye: of Izz'm with whom we have to,a’o : It

f peaks terrour as to all [imam in general], {0 in particu-
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"be much forfGod, and the Gaﬂvel, and Religion, and the

publikegaarl, .and all this while, ‘ they. are but pretmdem
. «to thefe things, and make God, and the Goﬂzel, and Reli-

. ‘ gim, and the pebble good, but ferve theirluﬂs and ends;

" - but be as ftirrups to get up into their faddle, but as Reps
\ whereby to mount unto their heights: as ﬁlm made
; . his zealagainﬁ idolatry, his breaking down the houfe,
and abolilhing the worfhipof Baal, a pairof {tarts
toget up into A545: throne; as the Plurzﬁe: made
- their ﬁrié‘tneﬂe in Religion, their great devorion and
'10:) prayers, but an artiﬁce to inﬁnuate themfelvesin-
tot peOples eﬂeem, and to devoure widoWs hou-
'fes. Well,who ever thou beefl, that-art guilty in this
. kinde, know it(and know it to thy terrour, )there is
no ﬁnner upon earth, Whom God hatesmore then he
.hates‘the‘e: ,for there is no (in, that is more direétly
and formally_cantmry.to the nature of God who is truth
it felt and cannot lye,then this {in of diffmbling is. And
there isno ﬁnne that dorh more either deny or dare. this

glorious attribute of Gods omnifcieme, then this ﬁnne .

rdoth. Doflthou think thou canﬂas eaﬁly blear and
.delude the eye: of God, as thou canft blinde, and elude
the eye: of men? canﬁ- thou with all thy colours, (bear,
‘pretencer, dzfguijes, blinde the eyes of God *3 All
things are naked and Open unto his eye, God feeth
thfreasthou art, and not as thou Wouldeﬁ [66793. 7679-
504m: wifethought to have put acheat upon Almziah
the Prophet, becaufe 17:2; quiver: dim wit/7 Aggrmd be
couldnot fee; therefore {he difguifeth her fell”, and fain-
eth her felf tobe another woman- But God could

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rahoam, wherefore faineft‘ theta thy ﬁlfto he another mm”.
Men may fo dzjgmfe themfelves, as they may put a

acheat upon Gods people( yea and Prophet: too,) for

their ﬁght iSbut dim.’ They may feem Saints in the
eyes of the moﬁ judicious men, and paffe with them

for others then they are. But God {eeth thee as thou art, ‘

and God will call thee by thy name: God wiﬂ fay unto
thee, come in thou hypocrite, thou pretender, thou met»
plea/er, thou ﬁlf-jeeher, wherefore ﬂew/f thou thy [elf
to he another .9 Ifay unto thee in the name of God as
Paul did to Amateur; God (ha/l [mite thee that whitea’
and, thou painted ﬁpuleher. God willswafh of allthy
paint and man/h, all thy jmoathmﬂe and thy eolaurs
from thee, God will difcover thy filthineffe and r01?
tennelfe even unto men, to the loathing of thy perfort.

You {hall feldome know a groffe hjpatrite goe to the

grave undiféovered . , -
There is yet another fort of fitment, to whom this
truth is matter of trembling. And they are fuch as'
drive a trade of projee'ft and deﬂgnet. And we live in
an age thats full of them, never any more. Iconfeﬂ'e
wijedome it good, it is Gods gift: and com/e! is media-
ry. But look to it, that your deﬁghe: be good, that your
confultations be for God, and for his glory. But if a—
any of you be found in a plot or confultation with thofe
of whom the holy Ghoﬁ (peaks, Pfal.2. They take
:03»er daft the Lord, and agaiaﬂ hilt Chrtﬂ. “you
drive a ﬁgne any of you, to hittder what God would

I i have promoted, or to promote what'God would have [ﬁfe

7’4“; or divide what God would havehttited, or the
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that are in all imam hearty, from heaven will blalt

them. God will cramp you, that your hand: jhall ”other

ahle to perform your work. There is a text very worth'

our looking on,_Ifa.29.13,16. We tmtd Jhem that 46g Iﬁ.z~,~.15,x6.

deep to hide their caunfd ﬁrm the Lord, and their work a in
the dark, and they [a] who feeth m, and who knomcth w ?
Surely your turning of thing: zap/Ede down, 'ﬂmll heat the

, 1’0“”: 514], &c. Where you have ﬁrll the men deleti-
bed, fecondly their milery. The men are del'cribed

ﬁrﬁ from the clofeneffe of their plots, they dig deep, and
their mark it in the dark, and they make account no man
Imam What they are plotting, and they lay whvfeethw

’and who knaweth m s? v Nay they do the belt they can to

hide their deﬁgnes, n0t only ﬁrm-men; but for» God,

they dig deep to hide their romfelﬁom the Lord. Second-
15:, they are defcribed from their indulh’y to compaﬂ'e
their deﬁgne: v .omnem maven: lap‘dem, they try all
wales, they tum thing: upﬁde down. If their plot will
noctake one way,they will try a feroml, if n0t that way
neither, they’ll try a third, .a fourth, and never leave
turning of things every way, upﬁa’e down, to bring av

bout their ‘deﬁgnes. Thefe are the men here {poken-

05. The mifery and we here‘threatned againfl them
is,thatthey {hall loole all their labour,the deﬁgnes they

trevell fo much with-,they {hall be as an abortive birth, \

Their turning ofthings upfzale down ﬁmﬂ-he a the potter:
clay. That-look as the porter: clay, when the putter hath
{pent time and pains in tempering and forming it upon

the wheel, and now the wild is even almoﬁ brought ‘

to its fhaPe, amen that {lands by, may with the leall
pulh put “Clan out offhape. and marre all that he hath

been formingupon the. wheel. Sonaith God.) {halll
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be. When you think you have brought them even to .

maturity, to perfe&ion,when you look upon your bu-
ﬁnelle as if it were almoﬂ: done, God that ﬁends by

and looks on,with'one tduch will dalh andmarre all. .

This is the we that the Lord here threatens againft
them. And there can be no greater woe upon eertn, to a
meer Polititian, then to be baffel’d-an‘d fool’d in his den
ﬁgnes 5 when God deals thus with them, he pierceth
them in the right vein. ‘God gave Ao/oitoploel,that great
Oracle of his times, but one fuch foyle as this,and his
fpirit was not able to bear it, he went home and hanged
himfelf. -.

In the ﬁfth place: This truth,' that All wings are nee
Iced and open unto the eye: of emote/2 mkonawe be we to doe.-
How lhould it 464/: and humble every one of us, inthe
ﬁght of that God before whom weﬁand, and with
whom me [new to doe 2/213 d4] .? That God, before whom
we {land this day knows all our ﬁns, and knows all 010'
hearts. The ﬁnne: that we know not, having commit-
ted them through ignorance, he know: them : they
have efcaped our eye, but they canno: efcape tee 4/1.
[icing eye of God. 0 God thou knowey? mjfooli/bneﬁe,
Pﬁl.69.5. The ﬁnnes that we have committed and
forgotten, God knows them, they are ﬂill prefent unto
him, and he is able to profane them unto us. 1741.50. 2 I.

I will reprove thee and fet thy ﬁns in order before .

thee. God-is able, exactly to fet before us 41! our ﬁns,
from the ﬁrﬂ to 1/2: laﬂ, in the fame order wherein we
committed them, for he ﬁllly and exactly knows them
all. What we did in ourinﬂneymhat in our chi/denood,
what inner gent/7, what wet/Jougbt, or ﬂake, or did“
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.fuch a time, and what at ﬁteh a time, and what in feel: a
place, and what in ﬁtth 4 company, what in the morning,
and what at noone, and what in the evening, and what
at midnight: what you did loﬂ night, and what this
morning before you came together, and what you have
heen,and what you have done here, what preporotion:
you made for theft: duties, what thought: and oﬂeﬁi—
on: you have had in thefe duties. God knows what
rowing thoughts, what vile thought: have been in any

‘ of your hearts, how deed and oneﬁe'iedyour heart: have
, been in eonﬁﬂing, praying, hearing. Now how lhould

this humble us, and ﬁll our faces with ﬂame in his
preﬁmce! Were all our ﬁns, and ﬁnﬁlll thoughts

‘ written this day with a ﬁm hem (as Term/lions phrafe

is,)that every man could read, and know, what we

have done, and heen, and are, how fhould wee ‘blufh in '

the prefence of men at and [hail we nOt much more in
the prefence of God that knows all things 1' 0 let us
in humble acknowledgement of our former iniqui-
ties, and of this daies ﬁns, every one of us fay with
Ezra, 0 my God I am oﬂmntednnd conﬂunded,ond I hlu/h
to liﬁnp my face ante thee, 0 no God, Ezra9.6. and a-
gain, verﬂr 5. Behold we are heﬂre thee in our treﬂuﬁ'ee,
for we cannot [hand before thee heeauﬁ: of this“.

In the ﬁxth place, This truth,thatallthing: are no-
hedond open unto the eye: ofhim, with whom we have to do,
may ferve, to exhort all of us to ﬁncerity, and {ingle-
neffe of heart; to Rudy to approve, our {elves unto
God in all our waies: This is that unm neeeﬂlerittm,
which though negleéted and difeﬁeemed by moft
men, will in the iﬂhebefound moi! comfortable and
advantagious, even ﬁnglenelre and plainneﬂ‘e of heart.

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Elan, he'had his game and his 7venifon, but-‘fdcab the
plain man gOt the bleﬂing. The world is full ofcuno
ning hunters, that may get the venilon, the humor-

fels ( and ’much good may it do them,) but, beléeﬂc it: '

the plain—hearted 74605: will go away with theblef—

ling; they will at length? Prevail with'GodJnd'pre.

vail with men. Plainh'eartedneﬂ‘e, will prevail more
then ten thoufand policies and cunning tricks. Now

to ef’tablifh everyone in, this plainheartedneﬂe, I know '

no more powerfull and effeauall means then the fre-
quent remembrance of the 41!- facing eye of God upon us,

that feareheth into allthe dark and crooked windings

of eve one of our hearts. - . '
An therefore thats‘ a fecond thing. I would» ﬁom

this truth exhon unto -, to eye this. all- fceing 19:: Of God,‘

to labour to get hearts alwaies to’ [ice and 0.6 are}: him,
who alwaies fees, and obferm: us :that we mayﬁy.
with David, Pfal.l6. I have ﬁt tin! Lardalwaier before.

me, and, MW eyes are ever toward: theL‘ord, Pfalog.‘

and there are efpecially two forts of men to whom I,
would commend‘this duty. . . .. -
Firfi, To King;,Prirzm,Relenjua’ges,‘ Megawatts -:.

They are God: deputies,via-gerentr,for them to remcm‘ ‘

her, how that GM who hatheommittedr. mum
truﬂ unto them above othehm’en,’ hath hi5,6}£a£0n£iﬂ
nually upon them, ﬂriétly-oblerving how ti‘ICYIidir“;
charge that truftjand manage that- power. ' O how-care)-
full, how exaa would itmake theme: 'how wotﬁ‘diic
make them impregnable ,tﬂ all bfibes; ﬂattErihs'," COW

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' . then 1' ' how would it niake them "adminiﬁer juﬂice by
, alttue and even ball‘ance, without refpeét of perlons!

therefore that good King fehofophat, When he let jud-
“ges oye‘r‘ 7ndoh, he gives them this charge 2 ChronJg‘,
6. Take heed what you o‘loe, .foryon judge not or men, hutfo't
the Ltd, who to withyon in judgement ( not only to allilt
you, but to overfee you,) wherefore now let the fear. of

. God he uponyon, take heed and doe Tit, for there it no iniqt‘tz'ty

with the Lord, nor reﬁeé’t‘ of perﬁtne, nor‘tahz'ng ofgtﬂt'i
So David, Plal.82.‘1. God ftandeth in the Congregation
0f the mighty, he judgeth among the Gods. Right H0-
nourableand beloved, whom God hath called to ﬁrm
Radioman, and hath devolved . upon you the 'hz'ghe/l
PM” and‘iue’iwmﬂhar this Kingdom khO'Ws : y'ou,
havegolten heard, that the eyes" of all the people of this:
Kingdom are: upon you, that the eye: of thefe thtee
Kingdoms are upon'you; that th'e'eyesof {ti/[the 6/2224;
the: of Chriit'ate upon you,ancl thereforeyou had need
take heed what you doe -, and in truth” {'0 You had, even“
upon that conﬁderation. But let me now put you in
remembrance, of that which is more then all this, the
eye: ofG'od are upon you. "And 0 let ( in the Name and.
Fear of God, I be'feech you ) let thele words ﬁnkdeep:
l'y dawn into your heatts,the eye: of Gaol are upon‘you -, if
you doe not profecute your room, Covenants, engagea
went: to God and men, with your utmol‘c ﬁrength and

, vigour, ﬁuallnot'God‘ﬁorth it out .9 if‘amoug you there

be any "found that are {com enentit} to the power of
godli-neﬂ’efeeret encourages ofany wickednel'fe,either
intopinion or proﬁiﬁ' ; perverters or lore-flowers of j u-
ﬂice, aecepters ofperfons in'judgetnent, [ha/[not 'Goof
[taro/2 it are? for he known]: the {term ofthe he'am,‘ Pfal‘.

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44.2 r. O thatyou would think of this every time you
come up into your Houfe, every time any of you hand
up to {peak in that Honourable Affemoly; O that you ~
would remember, that all t/n‘ng: are naked and open onto ,'
the eye: of GM. Other Senate: and State -aﬂernblies, ' f
have had MOttoes written over the doors oftheir Se- g
nate—boufés and Councel-Chambers; over the Se— *
nate—houfe in Rome was written, Neqnio’Re/pnolioa de-
trimenti oapiot : O that over the place where the Com— ;
noon: of E ngland ﬁt,rnight be written, Aﬂ thing: are no- ‘
[ted onu’open unto the eye: of him,witlo whom we have todoe.

p, O that it might be written upon the walls of the
Chambers where your' Committee: ﬁt. But what doe
preak of writing it upon wall: and door: 2' '0 thatGod

i . would write it by his Spirit, in every one of your
hearts, that where ever you are, or what ever you are -
doing,you might {kill have this in your actuall remem-
brance, that all tiring: nre naked and open unto the eye: of ,
bin: with whom we have to doe. -'

r Anether fdrt of men to whom I would commend.
this conﬁderation, are Mingle“, Preacher: oft/1: word :«
They alfo aremen immediatly im loyed by God, they.
are his Emooﬂadonr: : Now, cou d me, did we continue
ally remember the eye of God continually upon us, how. .
diligent, how abundant would it make us in the work

‘ of the Lord 1 how faithfull, how contagious, how un--

‘ byaffed, how above the frownesand fmilesof men 1
This was it made Pool {0 faithfull and uncorrupt-in-the.

acorn-I 7. work of his Miniﬂry, 2 Con: .1 7. For we are not no one...

r or] that corrupt the word quod -, but a of ﬁnom'ty, 44' of.

‘ God, a in we ﬁght of God, fa ﬂunk we in Cbriﬂ. That

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with fuch ﬁncerity, wasthis, he fpake it ”in the ﬁght

. 'Of God. I have heard a llory of that holy Martyr of

Chrii’t Jefus, M. Latymzr, that having‘in a Sermon at
Court in Henry the eight’: dayes much difpleafed» the
King,he was commanded next Sabbath‘after to prc ach
again,and make his recantation: according to appoint-
ment he comes to preach,and prelaceth to his Sermon»
with a kinde of Dialogifme in this mannerﬂugh Lati-
mer, Doel-i know to whom thou art this day to f peak 2'
to thehtgh and might] Monarch,&c. that can take away.
thy life if thou offend, therefore take heed how thou
fpeak a word that may difpleafe his~Majeﬁv,c§‘c. But.
(~- as recalling himfelf) Hugh, Hugh (faith'heg doeﬂ.
know from whom thou comeﬂ,ahd upon whole mei-
ﬁge thou art fentfeven the great and mighty God, that is-
ahle to ca]? hath had] andfoul into hell ﬁt? for ever, and
therefore take heed to thy felf, that thou deliver thy-
meﬂage faithfully,é'c. and fo comes to his Sermon ;-
and what be had delivered the day before, conﬁrmes
and urgeth with more vehemency then ever. Sermon.
emg done, the Court was full of expeétation, what
would be the iiTue of the matter. After dinner, the.
King calls for Latymer, and with a ﬂern countenance,
asked him how he durit be {0 bold as to preach after,
that manner 2’ He anfwered -, That duty to God and to
his Prince'had enforced him to it, and, now. he had
difcharged his . conicience and duty in what he. had
{poken 5 his life was in his Majeﬂies hand. Upon this
theKing mice from his feat, and taking M. Latymeroif.
from hisknees, embraced him in his armes faying, he.
hleffed God, that/1e hadaman in I213 Kingdom, that durﬂ.
dcalﬁplninly andﬁz'thfull] with him. Had never King in

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' , ﬁg" bettetwith .EnthhEnit hatpr‘efent.’ .' . .~ ’. ’
\ f Seventhly, This trbthg‘Tﬁat'qll' lying: ark nakedaﬁd
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E may ferve to ad monifh‘usst'o take heed ofﬁnﬁvety ﬁn,
how ferret and [mall {QeVer :forthere’s noﬁn {ofma/l;
thatGM‘ﬁilt wot, nor fa’fecret, that Godmmwtita-ke no~
., tic'e oi "its but all things. araﬂakedmd simulator they”.
{ . of‘bim, witb‘nflaom' we hawto due. I: was the ptefcn'pc
oprz'curw the Philofophetm hisfollowe‘fsw: [wiper
F ‘ . fogimnnt vita: [me tefiem aliquem dale/fa, “ever to think:
. that fome or Other ﬂood by; aS Witneiﬁé ofeVevy paf-f
F Page of their converfation; and Semi: emits. [ma
ct/im, ever to think himfelf init‘he prefence of Cato, or ,_ '
. Scipio, or thw, 0r form Other man-eminently verm-
.ous : that by imagininghhnfelf under theiafpeét 0H0;
graVC-andlauﬁer'e an eye, he might-he kept from 4'6]ng ’_
f ditiesvznd indcmrmsx :: TAnid farce-here is much in the eye;
.* ‘ of man,to repreife and attain from ﬁn Peta/l mile::cn-?‘ i
t « ram Regeﬁm mm irafci, ab-ﬁlzzm Regxle' dz’gﬂitatis (mininm
V - tz'm,faith Baﬁl .- Afouldjier<though Wrath—and revenge
E , {eem to bathe prepc‘r land-'effemiaﬂ quaﬁties of. a Wa-
diet) can‘bri’dle'his {age/v, and'put' up an injury in the:r
prefence of his King: 'uch majeﬂy is there in the eye,E \
. of man 5 Yea there i5 a kinde of authority and awe.-
f in the'eye' of a‘childe : Meximg deéemr [mm reveram- _ ,
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{ins be hid from his all-[eeing eye .- 0 how {hould this
make us [land in awe,and n0t ﬁn! You know what that
great Monarch Alva/lime“ {aid concerning Hemp,
when coming in, he found him call upon the ueens
bed on which {he (ate, W114: ( faith he ) will beforee tire
ﬂeengbefore meg» the bouﬁ .9 There was the killing an-
pba/i: in thefe words,before me; will he force the (keen

. bgﬂre me? What,will he dare to commit fuch a villany,

and I [land and look on ! O brethren,this is the killing

aggravation of every ﬁn, it is done beﬁre tbeﬂee ofGod.

This is that God looks upon, as the great affront and

indignity done unto him : What (faith God 5') will he

be drunk before me ? will he fwear, blafpheme éeﬁre

me .P will he be unclean before me a? will he break my

Laws beﬁre me ? Ah btbthrcn, to conﬁder, the inﬁnite

borrléle wieleedrzeﬂ'e: that are committed in this K ing-

dom, and that they are all éefere tbe eye ofGeeI, that God
{lands and views them 411, God {lands and loo/e: on, it

would amaze any man, and make him in aﬂoniihment
cry out, as once the Heathen did, Megan regetetor (tell,
em [entree wdxkfeelera ’.' tan [entree wide: .? Great God of
heaven, canll thou with {0 much patience, hear and fee
fuch wickedneiles 2'

Secondly, This, that all things are nakedand open mm
the eye: oflmn, witb when! we. have to doe, ihould admO—
niih us, as to take heed of all ﬁn, {o efpecially and im
particular, to take heed of putting off or delaying any
part of that fervice we owe unto God, or that duty he
requires of us, either towards himﬁlf or men,upon any
pretences or excufes, how jult {oeVet they may feem
to men or to our own confciences; for God knowsus-
better then men, better then our own confciences.

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There is a ﬁngulat text for this- putpofe, ”012.24. I I ,
11 z I f thouforhcar to delimrthem that—are drawn to death,
andthofe that on ready to heﬂain .‘- if thou f ate/l, Behold we
the»? it not .- doth not he that pond'reth the heart, con/ider .2’

’am! he that keepeth thy foul, doth not he know it .P and

ﬂail, not he render unto wary man according to hit work :9
:In this text is cotmﬂel, and caution, given. to allin then

feverall places, to endeavour with their utmoﬁvabili- .

ty, to deliver thofe that , are unjuﬂly OppreiTed and
hke to be ruined, and to take heed that they do nor put
Off this duty from themfelves, that they do not feck
excufes, andzplead ignorance, to fey thoyl‘knew not
fucheabne was in- trouble; or *iE~they>'did,i}{ét' they
knew that 'he‘ fuifeted trouble as a ti hteous perfon ;’
forzought they know he mayhavepu led~this trouble
upon himielf: or if .theytknow‘thattoo, yet they
ltnew'not how to help. and fuccou’r him. Take heed
obfuthexcufes asﬂxefeﬁ th‘hottjay'cﬁ, heholdthoa lettetv-
e/tz't not,.&c. Oughteit. thou not to have known it '3
mightf’c th’ou net hav ownit e Certainly it is the
duty ofevery good ' ‘iiﬂian in hisplace and fphere
C0" dons Yoédidjoh 29. I 6,1 7. PI two a father to the poor,
and the m e which 1 mm my! ﬁarchedout, and I huh:
the jam 0 the wicked, and flue/ted the ﬂat! out of their
teeth. ; his not enough for thee to fay, Behold thou
[metre/fit not :That‘Which thou lemme/l not, thou ought—
eitto hmfem‘hedwt, elfe thou doeﬂ excufe one neg—
lee‘t by aworfer,and aiTuredly God will ﬁnde this out,
for doth not hethat pondereth the heart conﬁder it ? and

hee that leeepeth thy foul doth not he/tioow it .P and ﬂaadmt .

be rehder unto Wary mm according to he: work 1’ - .

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milky arid- ~faitlaf'ullnelre (lireﬁ a. few words more at-
pecxally unto you. Yen know,6dwed,a’nd weal! know

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can to :hefe kingdomes in a very necelﬁtouszeime.
When thefe kingdomes Were( to keep the languageof ‘
the text, )drmmo death, and mm read} M be ﬂan, the
Lord then raifed you up Do be fwﬁwmo us, to fave
thefe kingdomes from prefent and imminent deﬁmétﬁ-
on: and O with what {at and fmoardmﬂe did you .
gird your {elves new this great work! \how ready
were youto enquire and be informed, ofall grievances,
and peﬂwesmwaiquc or pcrﬂmall .3 how 2:712:11} did.- on
demo and givcupyour felt/t: to nnderﬂand thee awe
of the &' Jan, and to reform zbufes and grievances
bath in C :5 and Stm! And through the'gaod
handof God upon our counfels and labmns,maq
particular pcrfons, were bow; to drab, and w:
105: M; yeteven buried. alive in paw, eth'and
min/4mm, have been reamed await-lives and li-
berties: yea and this whole We, hach‘bcen by '
you, under God, [we-land prejerwd unto that COﬂdlo
tjoain which we urethis day. Yet give me leave Ho.
math ad kite-4340 fct before your eyes and beans,
I. fad fpeétable Ql' fame that area: this day draw ta
1:45, AM red; to 6: 1141):, who {lurch out their 'cra.
vkg hands to yamfor {uccour and deliverance. And
incbe feat of God,and in the bowels of our Lad 7eﬁtc
I befccch you, to take heed how you turn away your
ayes from them,and think another day to thy, Kebab!”
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mule more apabm'uﬂy then Ioranyielfo can do. You
have done v Nably and jultly in putting our {elves

intqa way'o.‘ eleevingthem: only remem r, Bi: Jar mans.

qui cit}: dat.

Nor Willl urge you to a compallionate fenfe ofmany "

poor decayed men, who lye in our prifons rating (as
it were ) alive: You have begun already to take pity up-
on their wofull condition, and have appointed a Com-
mittee to conﬁder offome Way for their relief, as may
{land with the jufiice and oodnelfe of this Honoura-
ble houfe. Onely I humb y pray you, what may be
done for there poor creatures, let it be done fpeedily.
Nor will I inﬁft upon the complaintsof a third fort a—
mong us,who are as it were drawn to death, attired] :0
be ﬂain, and theygre many honeft men, {itch as theft
of Zebulon, 1 Chron.12.33. who were not of a dad]:
hem, who having fmgly and ﬁrmly adhered to you
in all, the time of your troubles, and done you faith-
full litrvice, chearfully obeyed your orders, and vigo—
rouﬂy profecuted them upon their delinquent land-
lords or neighbours,as the neeeﬂit'y of thofe diﬂraCIed
times did require; hereby they are become the ob-
jeéts of the envy and malice ofthel'e delinquents: {ome
being vexed and molel’red with fuites in law, having
aétions of battery and falfe imprifonment laid upon
them, Others opprefléd by their delinquent landlords
in their lines and leafes, or in the redemanding of thol‘e

rents,which they have already paid into the handsof '

your ltqueliratours. 'I know that upon complaint, a—
ny that are unjultly molelted, {hall ﬁnde relief: at your
hands. But in the meantime it is: matter of joy and
triumph toyour enemiesﬁf they can create a vexation

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no your. ﬁiends : , and to your friends it- is— a. petty death
to,‘b€thUS-V€X¢d,: for nothingbut _‘ " ‘ " :youre-fere

  

yice, Might not your dreamed; upon {ome
courfe 'to check this infolency in delinquents . ‘ '~

But thefe arebut- private evils,and they are but fome

few perfons and families that grone under them, for
reliefat your hands;; I will {he’w you. Kingdoms, Na-
tiom, dying,perifhing, if you make not halt to fuccour

Thcrc'is Ireland, poor Ireland, that’s drawn to dark,
that’s ready to be/lain, that’stnore then halfﬂain alrea-

‘mewgmwmbamhifwf a) t

dy; that lies bleeding, gafping, readyto give zupth‘e -

ghoﬁ : doe we not with trembling hearticxpeét every
day when we {hould hear that Ireland is dead, periﬂk
ed, loft f: I am fure you will not,you tanner fay, behold
we know it not. _0 then doe no: fore-ﬂow your aidgsand
their deliverance. Now God hath given yamfo‘glc‘e
rious a conqueﬁ over your enemiesat mammogram
eyes and hearts be upon Ireland; ‘ and ,doe {omething
[frail], vigamtﬂj, for the delivering of your brethren,

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1:111ch {be/4} long-c f0 {hall not-{he blood Of Inland be
required at the hand ofEnglwd. - ’ - ' 1 4
There is alfo anOther object of your commiferm’m,
and that is Englmd, our owndear England,- that hath
languixhed or ahloody ilfue, almoﬂ halE as long as that
woman in the Gofpel, ' till the very {trength and vi-
tals ofit are almolt exhauﬂed .I‘may fay to you ofEﬂg'
[484,35 leub: fervants did of Hg} t,'. Know/3 Mme!
that :12: whole/471d it dcﬁrajethxod‘faoq a” [know you
have ufed may means for the gainipgéof’our peace,
go onintbofc endeavours am,“ prefecutothem now

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more? then even: and the Lm‘d'fdbicﬂ'e them with Fuc:
ccﬂ'cg? that yout eoémies may. lice and be forced to ac-
knowfedgei v'irha‘t' we have afﬁrmed allthis While) to
wit, that aly‘ofygrig/Jteamﬁﬂpau, .a.fédC€:With.?tu!/J, a
peace with reformation,‘Was 'a-ha‘yt‘m aimedx at 1m your.
warres. ~ -. 2' -- _ . . . .

‘ There. is yet anorher 43mg oéjéif of, youripitya and
that is-"Imtb, Religion, 'tbzﬂajfel,‘ thevadtitfm’ Clmfﬂ,
that lies a bleedingghat’s dm’wn ta altatbﬁdy to’ 6: 11m:
Odo: nail befeech you forked): tozdelz'wmbcm; . There
is fca—rce any truth of Chriff,’ any Doarihe-ofthe .Go;
fpel, any'ppint 10£ mgr Rnligiany'bnt, biyfume'uctpems
rious hand or who: hath been inv‘aded; :affa’ulee'd, mas,
medsﬁ'tad y to be {laid .7 L The Daél‘r'im Of the?“ rim'ty,1 of

the God-badofxcﬁrﬁmnd Ofthe 1:on Giza/hof thee/M».
3‘) of the Saiptures 4, thelZJocﬁine-‘of‘ﬁleﬁjm. ; ofktdemé
Pub”: 0f V064tian,.'df yuﬁiﬁcﬁt‘aﬂ, 0f Smﬁiﬁdatim 5' the
work of'tlye Spirit, the ruleof 1th of lmlimﬂé ;-; the Do~
ﬁrm: of the Sacraments, ofthe Immortality of thefoul,
&c. We may fay withthc Prophet jfaz'abJrutb ‘13 ﬁlm
in the ﬂaw, 1fa.59..14..' And» there methinks it lies‘, ’
breathingout szidrfugi itt'nhplaint;H -1 [weird on my
rig/at Mnd,and were {Mr nape wobldknm meg-Reﬁtgcfaila
ed me, no mm cared ﬁr myfml, Pfai. 14.2 .4. Me thinks I
fee truth and Religion lying in the ﬁreets, and crying
as the poor treatures .doe that lye by thJePallace wal ,
or in the holeat Lndgam; Some mercifuﬂmmhavc piq
t~y upon me for the'Lords fake : but a‘sgenerally ncge
leﬂed; and difregarded as thofe - poore creatures are.
Truth it is, Right ﬂammable and belowd, ' that when
ﬁrﬁ you met-in Parliamengwe wetfg in-.gteat7d,£mger of .
Inﬁng our Religiw .1: here was I319“, ”Whétign ,
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. that had a deﬁgneto robus of our Religim .- .God gave
you hearts to be very fenﬁble of that danger, and to be
very zealous :for the prevention of it ': I, and thou-6
{ands more,muﬂ and will bar you retard, tlm ifit Ind
beenpaﬂ'ible, ja‘ponld but plwkedmtyoar own eyes, ra-
ther then have parted with the leaf} Apex or Iota ofdii
vine truth, out of a lenity or indulgence to 39$. 01’
Arminimmr any other Heretic} when fr trim: your for-
mer {cal ? is Religion and truth leife dearand precious
now then it was before 1' God forbid. Is it in leﬂ‘e dan-
ger e 0 that it were. But,furely beloved,our danger in
this particular is buta little charged, not quite remo-
ved : then indeed Religion was in danger of a were 1213‘.
last and quick dszmb,and now it is in danger of a more
liﬁgriﬂg, but «fun 41w}: : then it was like to have
been «Mutt/red with one tlmu? ofafmrd, or one Map of
a lumber, by the hand of know» and «admired cumin 5
‘ now it is like to be ﬂab‘cd to dual: with 504%)”, with
variety and multiplicity of mean, that" have wounded
our Religion in every win : And this 4 11/5724“ upon Rec
ligion, committed by thofe that wou d be counted her
chief andonelyﬁima’; Lift up youreyes and conﬁder;
doe you net feethe 6045 of our Reltgion, lying like the
bod of Clﬂr, after he was murthered in the-SIM:-
boa c, with above twenty feverall wounds, given him by
the hands of his own fiends and confederates 2' or like
thebod of Caﬂimx, whom two hundred of his own . '
fchool- yes mm to death with the pix: of their
writing-Tabla P May we no: fay of Religion, asPﬂ"
(Mira doth of that Martyrspiaure t‘ r, '
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Truly when I behold; tire face and ﬂat: of Religion :1-
mong us, his in- mine eyes, as if theLord 74w chrzﬂ
were cruciﬁed aﬁefb, and pat reopen/1mm in the midli:
of us. Here Comes a bl'afphernous Anion, and he
mounds In? beodieby denying bin to be God. There comes
aferfi‘ary that’s—a ﬂat Armenian, though he hath not wit
enough to know it, and he wounds. him through the
been, by maintaining uniwerfell redemption, and that
Clmff [bed his blood for dimmer thing,that never entred
into the bear: ofcljrr'ﬁ. There comes an Antinom'iaro,
and he piercetlo his hand: and Izzkﬁet, by denying that
exaét walking and working by the rule of tire Moro/l Leno,
which ferret CM} came not to give an indulgence or
digenﬂuz’m from, but (to give himfelf an example of:
my; [MC mm. Can you plead ignorance of thefe-
things,and"fay,5m5d we know it not ? you cannotgblef-
fed be God you doe'nOt: you have be un to fet your
faces againil thefé‘bleﬁlmoeies and lberegemhat ( fem;

. :dcrmimtiéw) are broken inyupon- us. Goon int/711: your

ri’igbt, to inp the mouth of all ungodlinefre, and the
zeal of the Lord of hofts be your ﬂ‘rength. Iknow it
hath been faid by fome, that becaufe abeort to know
and embrace the truth is the gift of God,» and the Magi-
ft‘rate cannot by .foroiole Mom work fuch a heart in?
men, therefore the Magiflrate mui‘t ufe nocompulﬁon.
or coercion in mattgs of Religion : but cerrainly,though

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to attend upon thofe meme: where m‘ddoth ufuallygirve ti From 244:
tbdtgracc : Elie you mail not my repeal the Law: that m“ “”7"“

enjoin Papiﬂs to come, to our abut/265mm repent of them,

as yours and the Nations ﬁns. And though the Magi; ,.

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jet certain'iy the MagiﬂM“ may make Low: {OW/2’41.”
and poem/b erfour; and olaﬁbemZes that are againftthc
truth : e1fe,porj ratione,becaufe a- ekaﬁ heartpr a trueoml
[om/l bezrt, is the gift of God, and the Magiﬂrate by all
his Pena/l Lam, cannot make men have-ﬂock hearts, there.
fore the Mogzﬂroto may nOt make Low, to pane/b, (14'qu
«:cry, ineeﬂ, theft, treefen .' were this good Divine”, or
good policie .9 Go on, go on Rig/7t Honourable and belo~
eyed, let mt fuchﬂma’om as thefe ﬂay you : Remember
the «vows ofGod are upon you, for the extirpation of
bereﬂe, ﬁtperffitio/z, '{e‘lyifmegrofwmefﬁg and of wlzotﬁo—
t: :u.'.* 2'5 eommry to band Doe—from and tlye power of
god/2mg}; as well as of Poper} zmd Pro/46y. Re-
: ember, the't'oxvy ofGor! are uponyozmnd tbe
e} e; ofGod are uponjouﬁnd the Lord give
you ﬂrength (0 to perform your vow, ‘
as you may ﬁna’e acceptance in L] 5.9

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