Chap. 24. An Expoftion upon the Boot; cf Jo s, Verf.15. 58-9---- Laftly, As no eye is exclufive alto to the eye ofGod. Note. wicked menprefume thattheirftsrareferret even to God him. felfe. They thinke, lure, God can fee no further, nor no better then man; And fo they have hopes tohide themfelves, not only from. the eyes (Amen, but from the eyes of God, as we may fee plain - ly ( vere. 23. 23. ) Can any hide himfelfe in ferret placer, that l fhalltootfee him, fayth the Lord; This queftion, can any ?'fbews that foee had flattered themfelves into inch a conclufion, that they could fohide themfelvesin ferret places, that God could not fee them. The holy Pfalmiíi fayd ( Tfal. 139. 12. ) The darknes hidethnot from thee,dut the night fbineth ac the day, the darkeneffe eand the lightto theeare bothalike. But a wicked man fayth, the darkneffe hideth from thee, the night is night to thee. O what beggerly apprehenfions have men of God l As ifhe whole eyes are ten thoufand times brighter then the Sunne, could not fee without Sunlight, or as if hecould fee but in the light, who made the light. Naturaliris fay of thole living creatures which tar us eft dui have fiery eyes, that they can fee as well in the darke as in the I uca' fe t'E r`''". light, the reafon is, becaufe they fee not by taking in the fpecies cú;'` cetr's of the objra into the eye, but by fending out a light from their rare net tofu, own eyeupon theobjtht. God bath fiery eyes indeed, he needs qua twee in noOutward light to fee by who is nothing elfe but light, Vain fin nebr,s d7 rene. ner, what can be darkeneffe to him; who is light, arid in whom camp am non there is nodarkencfye at ali? There is nothing Both more argue >xnc Amé f.. the blindnefre of a finner,then this Simple faying ofhis,No eyefe- eth me, unleffe it be that nipple practice of his which heufeth to the fame purpofe, and which is difcovered (as his Taft fhift ) in the Taft words of this verle.. e4'nd hedifguifeth hú face. The Hebrew is, He retteth hisface into a fecret;he muffles him- felfe, he changeth his habit, he puts on a vifard ; harlots were wont todifgttifethemfelmes ( Gen .3-9. 14. ) whenTamar tooke upon her the habit ofan harlot, the Text faith, She pint on a dif- guife ; fo here the Adulterer puts on a difguife, he putsa cozzen- ing face upon his face, and then thinkes, that thoughhe be feenee yeti
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