583 Chap. 24. An Expoftion upon the Book cf j s. Verf.r .. that eye (let others fee what they will, and fay what they pleafe) 1 (hall not fuffer at all for what I doe ; and then all'sweil, that's as much as I care for. And here we may note, That, As forceA- dulterers have their eyes abroad, that is, agents to efpy out beau. ties for them. So molt ofthem (ifnot all ) are afraid of the eyes of others. Thirdly, No eyejhall fee me, that is, not the eye of God ; God hirnfelfe (hall not fee me. Thus the Adulterer hopes to hide his fin from his eye who is indeed all eye, and whole eye is over al!.. Homines tate+e Thus the Adulterer fuppofeth himlelfe under filch a vayl ofdark- copicnr Dei e. neo, that he is free nct only from the eye of men on earth, and cuúsa non: ti- from the eye ofthose who are gods uponearth, but even from went. the eye of the God ofheaven. Hence obferve. 'Eirft, Aftnner it full of vainprefemlties. Heprefumes that the fin which he commits againft the light of his own confcience, final! never corne to light ; he prefumes that the fin which he commits in his own eye, (hall not come tothe eye ofothers. I have elle where noted this ignorant confidence ofcarnal! men, and onely name it here.. Secondly, Note. It if not the aft offin, but the discoveryof it which awickedman fearetb. Hecares not what wickedneffe hecloth, fohe may got unfeen; a godly man is afraid ofdoingevill, though he could doe it with greateft fecrecy, or under the darkest cover : he isafraid to doee- vil!, becaufe of the evil! and unrighteoufneffeofit, becaufe ofh e pollution,andunanfwerableneffe of it, both to his own duty,and the goodneffe o`God to him , but it is the difcovery not the ini- quityof hisworke, which the hypocrite feareth. Thirdly, As theeye is taken for theeye ofthe Magiftrate. Obferve. That it is the punilhment of fin at which a wicked man.rs trou- bled, he is not troubled at thefin it felfe. 'Tis the confequence offin, not the natureof it, the fmart of fin, and,not the filthof it, which the.wicked would avoyd. Laftly,,
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