Chap, 34, An Expaftion upo the I3ook,of o ts, Verf. 1I. 561 Shall he render unto hiss. The word fgnifes a full retribution, it figni`ies alto, in the Noune, peace ; becaufe when accounts are fully returned or ren- i7"7'4°J,rzddere dred all is felledand quiet ; when a man upon account is duchar- adpacersperti. ged, he bath a quietus eft, that is anacquittance wherein' he may net;,,ttx leguu- bequiet ;nonecan legally moka or trouble him. That which tas fgnaficot Godwill returne to all men, they mull and (hall ref} in, though p l uur pe,r that which he will render toman for his evill works unrepented lutonen. of will give him no ref+. Bold: The workofaman(fall he render untohim. The word isvery generall ; he doth not fay this, that, or 'to- ther wòrke,but the work, which is as much as anuniverfall, every work,of a man, his good works, and hisbad works, his open works, and his fecret works, his great and leffer works, there is not the leaf}graine of amans works, that (hall be unanfwered or un-re- turned to him and, when the Text faith the workofaman c. we arenot to take works in an exclufve fence, either firf}, as to words, as if God would render to man his works, but not his words ; mans words will come toan account as well as his works; theymabeanfwered for whether good or bad. (Math. 12. 36, 37.) For every idle word, that men (hallfpeak,, theyfhallgive ac- count thereofin theday ofjudgment ; for by thy words thoufhalt be jufíified, andby thy words thou (halt be condemned ; that is,it (hall be rendered to thee according to thy words, or as thy words have been, foitfhafl be with thee. Nor fecondly, are we to cake the works of aman, exclufvely, or'inoppofLion to his thoughts ; as if Godwould render to man what he bath aefed outwardly, but not what he bath a&e d inwardly, or wouldpaffe by his thoughts. We muf} give anaccount ofour thoughts, which are the fpring of our works as well as of our words, which are the publifbers and pro- claimers of them. God (ball bring every work ( faith Solomon, Ecci.1 z. 14.) to judgment, and every fecret thing,the naofl ferret whifpers ofthe tongue, and the naafi ferret plottings,contrivings, devifings défgnings, yea the limpie and tingle thinkingsof the heart; Thefe are not only the moulds and principles of every work; but every one of thefe is awork, and all of them the whole *fork of the inner man ; whofe work, or what is wrought there, is C c c c chiefly i:
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