to dro1Vfie SAINTS. ! 165 knowes what was done yefterday and t'other day and t'other day, (even hundred yeares agoe. Hee bath a Kalender of all the fins of men ever f nce the beginning of the World ; what people did in their child -hood, what in their youth, what in their manhood, though they themfelves have forgotten, yet he remembers ; Ther's no time out of minde unto Him : as Solomon fayes, God requireth that which ú pal, Ecc!. 3.1 y . Fifthly, he knowes what finnes men will commit here- S. after ; Chrift told his Apoftles before hand , what wicked dealings they fhould meet with; the Lord told Mofes what Pharaoh would do, before he went 'to him, I know be will not let yotigo, Exod.3.7 9. So likewife when the chil* dren of Ifrael were in the Wilderneffe, the Lord told Them e- ven then that he knew all the wickednes that ever they would doe when they came into Canaan. I know their imaginations even new fayes he, before I have brought them into the Land which I fware, Deut.3l,2,r Sixthly, Hee knowes not onely what finites they have 6. committed heretofore, nor onely what they will commit hereafter, but alt.() he knowes what they would commit, in fuch and fuch cafes. Hee knew Abinrelech would have taken -Sarah , if lice had not kindred him. He knew that the men of Keilab would betray David, if hee fhould flay there, a sums ;.t s. He knowes what a rich man would . do if bee were poore ; wham poore man would dò if he were rich; He knowes that fuch a one would play the Apoflate, rather then loofe all his living ; Her knowes that fuch a Man 'would do mifchiefe, if hee had where- withal! ; 'hee fees what is in every mans heart, what lies particularly in every mans nature; It may here's one that dyes in his Infancy, the Lord knowes what hee would have done, if bee had, lived till her was a Man ; here's one that dyes at forty , the Lord knowes what a, wretch hee 'would have been, if he had lived to twenty or thirty yeares longer ; here's one that dwells now in a good family, it may be now hee conformes to good duties, he does not flye our, Y 3 but
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