346 Howfhould a Chriitian behave himfelf Serm. 15. Real. ?.a Reaf. 3. Real. 4. 3. Of Poftfcience or remembrance, wherein he writes down our names and all the particulars of our carriage towards him. I. Whether they be good ; no a& of Piety or Charity, not a cup of ceild water from the Spring ofLove,not a drop of tears from the Spring of Godly furrow, not a figh from the bottom of a broken heart, but its taken notice of, botled, recorded, Mal. 3. 16. Or 2. Bad; not a wicked thought, a malicious fcoff or wicked action, word, morion, but God marks it, and Pets it down in the Book of his remembrance. Pfal. 5o. 21. 2. God need not reflect, or look back, for he bath all things pre feet before him, that ever were, are, or are to come, viz. I. In Speculo decreti. 2. In C'auf :s particularie ui. Gods Knowledge, (called fore-knowled ge,and remembrance in ré fpea of us and the things known) is as his being, altogether in pinto aternitatis. There is not in God firfl and fecond of tint e, and caufe, no was and is to come, but all is. There is not with God beginning fie., ceiíion and end, but his name is I Ana, and fo is knowledge as himfelf, yeflerday, to day and the farne for ever, 2 Pet. 3, 8. The knowledge of men is as of ore Banding on the (bore, where fome (hips are pa ft, and out of fight one way, others to come, and out of fight another way, others in fight right over again( him ; but the Knowledge of God <s of one on the top of an high Mountain , where with one view all things are pretext, Heb. 4. 13 3. God alfo foals up our iniquities as in a bag, f ob 14.17as the k ofihe Sizes feals up the Indictments for the next Circuit,nay God him. felf will bag them, and feal them up with his own hand & fignet; Deut. 32.34. God fpeaking of the provocations of his People, faith he, Is not this laid up in (lore with me, and fealed among my treafure ? So ílriá and carnal is God, for fecurity, as we lay, Sure bind, fure find. What more fure and Cafe than that which God himfelflays up in Bag and Cabinet , and feals among his Jewels? As when God makes up his Jewels of Mercy he will remember them, Mal. 3.17. So when he calls up his treáfuresof wrath he will remember them. 4. Gods Truth engages him in this cafe , his Word cannot pats away, now be hath Paid it, Exod.24.7. he will by no means acquit the guilty ( i.e. Unlefs the blood of fprinkling for repentance and remif- fion be applied.) faid again, pfal. 68.21. I will wound the head, and again, Efay 65.2o. The Pinner an hundredyears old is accurfed. Nów as the Godly look to have God as good as his,woïd for good, e
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