400 Religious Converfation recommended. SEIM. ther than the thoughts, or what is next to XV. them for privacy, the clofeft communica- tion of intimate friends; that all this, I fay, is in the fight of God, and of great price. And this indeed is to religious minds of the greateft moment to their comfort and fupport under all their difficulties, and a pow- erful motive to preferving ftedfaftnefs in true piety. As nothing can be more juffly dread- ful to wicked men, if they well confider it, than that God's eye is always upon them, obferving their molt fecret evil defigns, and their clofeft confultations for perpetrating the mifchiefs they have meditated, in order to call them afterwards to account, and tef ify his juft indignation againft them; fo on the con- trary, it is a never,- failing fpring of confola- tion to good men, that God is ever at their right hand, that his eyes run to and fro through the earth to mark the perfe ; that not one truly devout thought upon his name in the midi of a perverfe generation furioufly bent on wickednefs, nor one hearty expref- fion of honeft zeal for his fervice in the molt fecret retirement, fhall be loft, or efcape his notice without approbation. If
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