Pik compared with that of God. 283/ workers of iniquity may hide themfelves from SERM. Prim. And, a book of remembrance is written XL before him fir them that fear the .fiord, and Y' think upon his name 11. This is a confidera- lion often infifted on by the facred writers as of great and immediate importance to the purpofes of religion, which they defcribe by walking before God, always as under the ob- íisrvation of his eye, which runs to and fro through the earth 'to mark the perfec`l, who are the objets of his peculiar care, and to detet the bidden things of difhonelly, which in due time (hall be brought to clear light. And, indeed, what more affecting confide - ration can be fet before the mind of man, than that a perfe &ly righteous and almighty ruler has us always under his own immediate infpetion, that we can no -where cover our - ,felves, not even our thoughts, from his eye, no -where withdrawfrom his prefence, for it fills the univerfe ? , If we afcend into heaven, he is there; if we make our bed in bell, be- hold be is there ; + if we take the wings of the morning and dwell in the utterme parts el the fa, even there fhall his hand lead, his right hand (hall hold us ; if we fay, Purely the darknefs (hall cover us, even the night Mal. iii. 16. / Pf. cxxxix. á t2.
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