5&8 Chap. 2.0-. s.in expo Apo the ú'cakof B. Veri- 27. The iniquitie ofman fha!l be revealed. There is nothing hid, belt it (hall be made known: and ra. ther the i it ¡hall not, fenceleffe creatu-es make it known; and that which hath not mouth fh31! utter it.The heaven /hall' reveale, &c. yea if nothing elfe will reveale the iniquitie of man, mans iniquitie will reveale i t felfe Sin will prove like the oy ntment of the right hand of which Solomon faith (Troy. 27. 1.6.) that it zzrayeth itfe!fe. There is no way for no toget our fin covered, but by revealing it, nor hid, but by confefiing it. Pf. 32.i. Bleffed is the manwhole iniquities areforgiven,and wholefin is covered. Covered, how ? Not with any covering of our own. The Prophet complaines of Inchcoverings, and fhewes theufelefneffe of them. (Ira. 3 i. I.) They cover with covering, but not rfmy Spirit. There are fome that cover their fins, but it is with a cover of their own making, not with that covering which the Spirit ofGod bath trade. The covering which the Spirit makes is onely the free grace and love ofGod in the rightecufneffe ofChrift; this is acovering of the Spirits making. Now they who cover with a covering which is not of this making, do indeed difcover their finfulneffein(lead of co- vering their finne. For as theProphet thereadds, Thefe cover= ings arenarrower: then that aman can be wrapped in them. And.l with whatfoever of cur own we Elide w r fin, a doe but Phew our nakednefie. Mercy covereth thofe iniquities hick we con- feffe and thole which we conceale ¡hall be dif vered by Jul- ¡lice. The Heavensßiall declare his iniquity. Secondly, Obferve;. The extraordinary motions or fuppreffions oftheheavenly. powers, reveale the /ins ofmen. Unufuall apparitions in the heavens, fiery meteors and light. ning, formy winds and tempellous confufions in the Gyre, aninde us of thofe confufions which rage in the lives and hearts of men. When the clouds ofheaven are not diffolved into re- frefhing fhowres, when they doe not give out their vertue to cherifh and quicken the earth ; there flops and checks are witneffesofmans iniqúitie;The heaven (ball declarehis iniquity,- erind,
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