to drowfie SAINTS. bee is the Judge of all the World, and he is to judge every tanner according to his deeds ; Now if bee ( hould not know all his finnes, he could not judge righteous judgement. The Judge muff know all ferrets, other wife he cannot well judge. Now beloved, God is a righteous Judge, and therefore no finne can !cape him ; God (hall bring every work into judge- ment with every ferret thing , whether it be good or whether it be evill, .cclef. r 234. True it is, he !hall not want wit - neffes in the day , for Confcience (hall be a thoafand wit - reffes yet it is needfùll, that himfelfe fhould have perfect knowledge of all the aelions of men. For why isConfcience fo ready to accule a man, when it is awakened ? It is onely becaufe it is contemns that God knoweth all its doings ; now if God had not perk& knowledge himfelfe, contience would not witne(fe all then, neither could it make a firmer confefïe all. But God knowing all, this is it that will make confcience to 1peake truth. The Plàlnüft being to difpute againft a com- pany of Atheifticall people that fayd, tolfb God !hall not fee, Pfal.94.7. marke how hee reafons again(# them. He brings an argument from Gods judging of men to prove that God mutt needs fee ; O faycs he, it is he that chaftifeth the heathen, (hall not hee come& ? hee that teacheth man knowledge, (hall not he know ? verf.io.q.d. yee deny God to be judge ; if yet fay hee does not know, how can he corre& them ? will he judge men for that he knowes not what ? no, if he be the judge of the whole World, he mutt needs know all that men doe. The Ufe of this is, Firft, is it fo that God knowes all mens finfull courfes, i£men be dead - hearted, he knowes it ; if they be heartleffe in good duties, he knowes it; though they would be loth that men (hould know what they are, and doe keepe it from them, yet they cannot dawb it before God ; he knowes it then ; this may ferve to confute them that íáy God does not know fin. This was Averroes his opinion, who (ayes God does not know fin God knows all that ever he knowes by knowing of himfelfe, and how can live know fin, becaufè het Z can 169 Jeremy bath avert' excellent laying, Iet.trao.
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