r 164 I CHR.I ST'S larm Dour: I. 9. 3 4 The firft point wee hence gather, is that the Lord knower e- very mans ill resoles ; bee is privie to every mans tones, though men carry them never fo cleverly and clofely, yet hee knowes them. Firth, hee fees mens Gnfull werkes ; they can do nothing, but bee fees ir, as Elihu 1peakes, His eyes are upon the ways of men, and hee fretb all their goings. There lino darknefe nor fhadow of death, where the workes of iniquity may hide tbemfclves;Job.34.2t,2a. What ever evill men doe, they cannot hide it from him ; they may go into a houfe, and thinke to (hut out all men from lacing of them, but they cannot (but him out ; they cannot get out of his fight be they never fo private, and whe ever fees them not, yet the Lord fees them. Secondly, hee knows every fyllable that, men fpeake at any time, as David (ayes, 'There it not a word in my Tongue, but to O Lord theuknowef£ it altogether, P1ál.r ;o.4. The Prophet Elifha could tell what the King of Aram fpake in his privy chamber, z Kings 6.13. The Lord can tell what words people fpcake under the Role; what they fay in their beds what they whilper in their clofe meetings , what they belch out on their Ale-benches. Enecb fayes,he will have them all up at the day of judgement, nay if a word be but at the Tongues end, hee hears it. Thirdly, hee knows every thought in mens hearts, as Mofes fayes,.a'nd God law that the wicke,dnefe of man was great upon the Fart h, and the very imagination of the thoughts of his heart was enely evill continually, Gen.6.5. Though' mens thoughts be fly things, and are oat 'of mens eyes, and Divells eyes, and Angels eyes, yet they are not out of his eye; he fees what men think. Fourthly, he knowes all that ever a man hath done in times pal} ; he revealed unto Mofes what Adam did in the Garden, what Cain in the field, what bragges L emech ufed before his Wives, what villany Lots Daughters did in the night time, many hundred yeares after they were done. He knower
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