comfortable walking with God 89 unto Chrifl,be porfwaded and acknowledge, 1. The peftilen- cie of that wicked Proverbe, Thoughtsarefree. It is true, the immediate invitible produ&ions and projeas of the heart, lie not withinthe walke ofhumane Iutlice, neither are liable to the cenfureofearthly Courts and Confiflories. But there is an All teeing and Omnifcient Eye in Heaven , to which,' the blacked Mid-night is as the brightefl Noone-tide, Pfalm. 139. 1 2. Whichfees our fecreteff thoughts afarreoff, verfe 2. and fets;them in the fight ofhid countenance, `Pfal.9o.8. Hence it is that many humble foules, feufible of their fecret prove- king the glory of Gods pureEye, are more grieved (fetting afide the ill ofexample and fcandall , ordinary attendants up- on openand vifible mifcarriages) for the rebeilioufnefle of their thoughts, then the exorbitancie of their aólions. For the fling of there is fomething eafed and leffened, as they thinke, by the abfence of Hypocrifie, and becaufe the world fees the worft. Bu: concerning the other, it cuts them to the very heart, that they are not as well able to preferve their inwardparts in puritie toward the All-fearching Eyeof that God , who ¡fretched foorth the heavens , and laid the foundations ofthe earth; as their words and ac}ions in plan- fibleneflé towards man , who ./fall die,' andthe fonne of man, which !hall bee made as graffe. Whereas then the natural! mail is wont to let his heart runne riot and at randome into a worldofidle imaginations , without remorfeor reftraint doe thou make thy fan%ification fore unto thy felfe, by this infallible figue, That thou fut%ref the confa ieration of Gods All-feeing Eye, the curbeof the lati Commandement, and checkeof atender confcience, to range thy thoughts into order, to confine and keepe them within a holy compafle from their vaine and impertinent vagaries. a. That thou muff be accountable and anfwerable for every wandring thought, as well as for idle words and wicked anions. Nov confider what numberleffi fwarmes of imaginations pafie the Forge ofthy phantafie every day ; and therefore, if thoubee not ex- traordinarily and exaHlyvigilant & eye-full over thy heart, thou mayefljuflly feare, that upon the openingand illiglIt- fling
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