i66 Cv H R I S T'S 9larm 7. 1. 2. but the Lord knowes how ha would be a very rakefhainc, iE he lived in another place. Seventhly , the Lord knowes what men .are, and what they have beene, and. what they will be, as he knowes all their thoughts, words and works, He knowes all their dif- pofitions, their perlons, their natures, their qualities, their of eEfions, and ends and aymes, and motives, and elates hee knowes how many are rotten though they profeffe never lo much, how many are unfound though they be never fo well effeemed in the Church ; Hee knowes in what elfate every man Rands in. He knowes vaine men, be feethwickerineffe alfo; will not he t hen pnnifhit ?'Job.rr.tr. The reafons of this point, that God knowes all mens finnes and finfull courlès, he knowes all that they ever have done, or doe doe, or wil i doe, or can doe,or would doe, are : Fir( +, becaufe God is infinite in knowledge, as .David. fayes, hit tonderßanding.is infinite, Plál.r47.5. as the Pro- phet Efai (ayes, they t no lurching of his nnderflanding, Ifat4o.a6. well, if he be infinite in Knowledge, what can a- poore Creature keepe dole from him ? who can hide his iniquities from him? who can Pct fuch a colour upon his wicked devifes that bee cannot difcover them ? let a man excufe himfèlfe, may be his excutes may palle currant among men, but God muff needs know the fallèneffe . f his exculès, and that they are but Fig - leaves : men may pretend what they will, and deny what they will with an impudent forehead , and lit a good fact upon what they will, and this may ggoe unperceived among men ; but Gods underlfanding is infinite, and therefore hee knowes all that Men do, he knows how every man Rands affeéed unto him, he knows how people come to Church, and whether they meane to doe what they have been taught whether they mean to reforme what they have been reproved for ; for, He is infinite ha Know Usk, and therefore he is privy to all the fins of men. Secondly, as he is omnifcient, fo he is omniprefent ; he is prefent
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