168 CHRIST'S Marm The Drunkard could not hold up the .cup to his mouth, if God had not intended to preferve his armes and his mouth, at that time bee could not goe to the Tiplinb hour, but that God intended to continue him his feet, and his health ; no man could thinke a wicked thought, nor fpeake a naughty word, but that God upholds his heart and his tongue in the interim ; if God fhould forbeare his goodnefle to them bee would be 1peechlefl'e, and not able to thinke fo mach as any thought at all and this aggravates mans (iinnes, that he hath need of Gods goodneffe' at the fame time , and yet that bee fhould Prone againft his Maker. 4, Fourthly, the Lord knowes every mans fumes, becaufe hee bath a Candle in every mans bofome ; hee bath made mens hearts on that wife , that he hath a Candle in them all. Yee know there is a fpirit in a man , that wee call Confcience, that is Gods candle, as Solomon fa yes, The fpirit of man is the Candle of the Lord , fearching all the inward parts of the belly, Prov.zo.27. Well, if hee have a Candle fhining in e- very mans bofome what can there bee hidden in the darke ? Nay, hee knoweth mess hearts and wayes better then they know them themlelves ; as the Phyfitian can better judge of his Patients body then himfelfe : Chrill knew Peters unbe- lieving heart , when bee knew it not himfelfe, though all men be offended in thee yet will not J; Chuff knew hee would be offended in him that very night; So lie knew Ha- zael wicked life, when the man that owned it, would not beleeve it ; Is thy fervant a Dog (ayes hee, that J fhould bee fo wicked ? Yet he knew he would be fo wicked and cruel! ; and therefore God can bring to a mans mind a thoufand things that hee never dream 'd of before ; many a man de- ceives himfelfe all his life -time ; But when bee conies to lic- ken and die, then God fhewes him what hee is, and what he bath done , and now hee fees he is a damned wretch, and yet before though all the Minifrers in England had told him fo much, hee would not have believed it. 5. Fifthly, He mil needs know every mans tnnes becaufe hce
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