Chap. I 2. An Expoftion upon the Bookof Job.Verf.22. 313 Ipeahnig.haher they be good or evil. Though the firmer go as deep as Hell, yet himfeff and his fin, are under the eye of God. Thou ( faith the Pfdruilt ) hail jet our iniquities before thee, and our fecret fens in the light of thy countenance. When God intends to punish uuquity,' tie is !Ind to f t it before him, but whether he do orno, it is before him. Arid as our feci et iniqcity is al- ways before him, fo he fometimes Pets it before men. ( Ecclef. i o. 20. ) Curfe not the King. no not in thy thought, and cif' fenot the rich in thy Bed chamber, for a Bird of the air Jhall carry the voyce, and that which bath wings Jhall tell the .matter. Solomon warns thole who wickedly c.)ccfpire agaitilt Kings, and perlons in auoh:iricy, to confider, as their fin,fo their danger, for though they carry thematter never to clofely, Clod can make it knovin: 'Tis hard for a man to conceal his own thoughts ( when the Iua in cogita- minde-is lull it may quickly run over at the mouth) but 'cis ea- rione revolvun- fie with God to find out a way for the revealing of our tint, ife facili thoughts.' A Birde of the airpallcarry the voyce: But what's the erbsprofernn- eram prx- voyce of a thought? or, How comes a Bird into the bed-cham- ter intentronrm ber ? The bed- chamber is the fur eft place, and a thought is the proferenri,Lyr molt fecret a& : what can be more fecret than a thought ? Who inEcclef can hear the found of our thoughts, or under(tand their Lan- guage ? We fay, Thought is free. . Thoughts fall not under the Cognifance, or testa, e of any Court. That which fearsnoevi- deñce, fears no !entente : Yer, God to whom our thoughts are evident, can fend in evidence againft our thoughts. A Birdof the air pall carry the voyce of that which bath no voyce. It is a proverbial 1peecn, tonote, that by the molt unlikely means, if other means fail, God will reveal thofe curies, and reveal them fpeedily. As if he had laid, Rather than finch fecret wickednefs Jhall be undifcosered, God will make Birds (peak, and Chamber- doors (peak, the !lone out -of theWall, and the beam out of t`-e Tim- ber pall fpeak, rather than Plence (7oall cover fuck a wick, dnefs. Mo: e diftinut(y, wiles he faich, A bird of the air (hall carry the voyce, he implies two things. Tirf+, that it fha'.I he revealed by f,nle tlnexpel ed means, or by means as little fofpeácd for the doing of [itch a thin t' ac a bird is. As, when Palaam went on finfully, The dumb AffeJpeal ingwith mans voyce, forbad the mad- nefs of the Prophet; Balaam little dreamt of filch a reprover : arid theft !hall as little dreamof tùch a Tale-bearer. Secondly, Thisphrafe of Creech implies that the matter (hall be revealed S f by
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