Chap. t 2. ./`n Expofition Ypótn the f3ooF¿, of Job.Verf.22. 315 were _Antipodes. But now 'cis known that the feet of our Bre- thren have walked oppofito to the Coles of our feet ; and we have not only experience but light of reafon enough to evince it. God bath made Art a key tonature, and bath difcovered many deep things out of that.darknels to us, which our fore-fathers never law. Thus we see, that deep things, both Divine and Hu- mane, and there both pra&ical and natural, are fetcht out of dat'knefs by the mighty power and unfearchable wildom of God. There are three ways by which Godmakes difcoveries of evil pelts or pra&lies, lying in deepeft darknefs. Firfl,Fy the confe,Iion of the perfon whole head hash contrived, or his hand a.&ed them. Evil in theheart drops Out at themouth, and this two ways. i. By Queries and Queflions put to the guilty. Such are often entrapt in theirownantwers,and their own tongues are awitnels againtt themfe ves. As fpeech bewrayeth whence men are,fo what they have been doing ( I rov.2o.5.) Counfel in the heart of man is likedeep water,but aman of underitanding swill draw it out. He draws it out by q:,eftronsand examinations. When chafe black waters will not flow out of themtelves, they are pumped up by the art and induftryof others. 2. Aconftilionof thefe deep things out of dasknels is made by the workings of a mans ownconfcience. When confcience is touched and beginneth to ake,that will cell tails; It is hard for a man atfrtch a time tokeep his own counfel. I t was thecautionof an ancient, Beafraidof doing any thing which is ill,though therebe riepequid ax, no witnefs but thy fell : If thou could'tt do it thy conscience ta- furor, to fine, king no notice of ir, thou mighteft poflibly keep it fecret, but teffe tune. whatfoever thou doeft,is done in the eyeof confcience,therefore take heed. We have a faying,that Murther will out,and if nothing elle bring it óuc,confciencewill : Conscience will examine a man as fh i&ly as any Inquifitor in Rome And as men examined and tortured by fever e Iirqlificors, confers what they would not, fo alno do they whoare examined and put upon the Rack by their own confc-ences. Secondly,Gadrevealethdeep things immediatelyby his ownfpirit r As the fpirit reveals h the holy countels of God to us,fo the molt fecret evil deigns and connfels of men ( 2 King. d. i I.) When the Kingof Syria could take no counfel but it was preicntly dif- S f 2 covered,
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