3.22, Chap. 23. Aa Expefition upon the Beck_ of I 0 B. Verf. 3. I would not ¡land at a dirt ance, or keepe aloofe off, as a guilty malerador, but draw kWete co him in a holy and well grounded confidence. Thus 7i% fpeakes in anfwer to that Charge of Eli- pLax, in the former Chapter, Is not thy wick!. dn,ff great,and thine. iniquities irfinite ? Now (fifth 70b) you fhall ice what my fins :re, and what my guilt, geeing I dare venture even to the very throne ofGod, where no hypocrite.dares appeare. While 74 profeffethj hat if God after themanner ofmen fhould fit in open Judgement ( there will be Inch a judgement at the La day ) he would come neer to him, and not be afraid, he fe(mes fully affu. red of his owne integrity, or of the goodneffe of hiscaufe, as allo that God would be good unto him. Hence obferve ; That true b, lines andoprightnes bathabundance ofConfidence before Geed. eAdarn having finned, and the guilt ofhis fin being upon him, durft not come to theSear, to the Throne ofGod God came to him in the cool of the day to examine and queflion him about his fan, but he hid himfelfeamong the trees of the garden, he with- drew, not daring toabide him : and that's the Rate dal( finners, who have the guilt offin upon them, they hide, they run from God, when once their Confciences are awakened. fin in the all ofit is a turning or departure from the iodine, of God, fo fin an- d orfin in theguilt of it caufeth not onely a departure but a rsen wing and a hiding from the jultice ofGod. Guilty limners are fo far from coming up to his Seat, that they cannot endure tocome in his fight ; a malefador bath little minde to come before the Judge, or to theBench where the Judge fitteth. .N`lonon faith (Pro. 20. 8.) A king that jitteth in the Throne of 7adgement, fcatteretb awayall evill with his eyes. Wemay und. ritand it thus, he fcattereth evil! adions, and evil! perlons, evil! worl, es and evill workers with his eyes ; there's not an evill man willing to appear, or that dares toappeare beforehim Theywho are felf-sondentned, waft needs be afraid that ethers will condemne then al. Magi- ftrates fitting in Judgement are terrible to guilty ma lefaciors.. Or thus, Hefrattereth the evill with his eyes ; that is, he makes evill men reveale and fcatter their molt fecret evilis,by his prying into them, And induftrious Examination of them ; that evil! or wicked
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