Per .1 ROVERBS. 45 they complaine of them tobe verycuill men , whom they meant to intreate in a very euíll manner. But Godbringeth them in,faying, that whichThey fhould fpeake,ifthcy would fpeake the truth plainelywithout difli riulation : Wee willlay 'mite for thud : and liepriuilyfor the innocent . And he that heere doth thus difcouer their horrible iniquity, Both 1 :.ke- wife in other Scriptures, as much lay open their hideous,yet fecret, dole , and hidden impiety : As where bee chargeth them to fay to God , Departfrorrvvs : For we defrenot the '1L 21.4. knowledge ofthy wayes . Who is the Almighty , that wee /hould terse hire ? And whatprofit fbouldwee base, if wee Auldpray -untohim ? And, it is i11 vaine toferueGod : and, what profit isit, that Malat.3.t4. weehauekept his commandement , and that wee walledhumdÿ beforethe Lord ofho.des ? And where het accufeth them for Paying veto the Prophets , Prophecy not vntovs right things, Efiy ;o. to. i i but ieakeflattering thingsunto vs : prophecy srrours, depart out oftheway :.goe afide out ofthepath : car4fe the holy one of Ifra_ ell to ceafefrom vs. Firl}, het beholdeth all the intents and motions ofthe kafots I heart, and therefore better knoweth their mindes proiec`fs, and purpofes thanthemfelues doe, and fo is neuer deceiucd in them. Secondly, he fore-teeth th'effe6ts and confequents that 2. will infue vpon their words and actions , all themifchiefe thereofis knowneveto him. Confutationof their erroneous expeaations,which hope y f, g. withas great facility to illude the ties of God , as they arc wont to abufe the cares of meii : as though he could found no deeper into their prac`ifes , by Peeing what they meane, that- mortali creatures arc able to doe byhearing what they fay . Thinke they by the cioake or vilard ofguilcfull Epee- ches to couer their ambition, their malice, their couctouf- ne(Te, or other corruptions, from the light ofhim, which is as well ornnifcious , asomnipotent, whole knowledge is e. gull( to his power? And nobetter a courfe doc they take for tbeLfrelues, whichbcing impious and wicked, appeale from mens
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