to dr'obvfle SAINTS. I 167 prcfent every where ; whether can any Creature goe from his pretence ? if bee_ goe into Bed, or Chamber, or Ç !Met, or street, or high way, or Alihoule,' or Drab- houfe, home or abroad, bee can go no where but where God is, and how can bee doe ought, but God mull needs fee him ? God himfelfe argues on this manner ran any hide hienfel fe infeeret places. that J fhenld not fee bins? -doe not J fill Heaven Rnd Garth l fayth the Lord.. Jes.33.2..y.d. it 1 be every where, J mull needs be able to iee every where. Thirdly, the Lord is omniprovìdent,ns J may fo (peak, bee bath a hand either in the making of al' things, or at leall in the permitting and diipoGug cf all things. All that is good , bee does it himíélfe, or .else it cannot be done. All that is evill, bec muff permit it to be, or elfè it cannot be committed ; nothing is done without his con- currence or fafferance; therefore he muff needs know all mens fins, he knowes what flee bath fuffered to be, or does fuffer, or will fufter; not fo much as the tunes of men can fall out without him ; as Peter fpeak,ng of Judas his finnes, and the Jewes, and Pilots and Heredo. they.did nothing but what he knew they would doe ; why they did nothing, but what his Hand andConnfell determined before to bedene,Ac'ls 4.z8. therefore he knew the Iewes would betray (. brill ; he could tell the Prophet Zachary diverfe bundi"ed" yeares be- fore, that bee would take ?o pieces of Silver to doe it. He could tell the Prophet lo fay that they would. finite him, and buffet him, that they would reckon him among tan!: greffors ; be could tell the Prophet David that they (hould pierce his hands and his Feet , and that they (bout& -,ffer. him V ineger to drink!. the Lord knew all thefe finoes o t yours? why becaufe bee had decreed them. True, hee did not decree that bee would make them commit them, but he decreed that they themfelves fhould be the agents of them ; it fhould be meetly their fault, their covetoufnes, their malice; their men - pleating,' their wicked difpofition.; J but be or- dred there things, and therefore he mull needs- know therm. The 3. hitirnr _.._..
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