tu drvi-Vfie SAINTS. p 171 (itch earthly things, and they do fo favour the r minds that they make their minds bate with them, and therefore we are commanded to ennoble our minds and underflandings, for thelc things make them vile, and therefore we fhould think of them no offner then needs mule, for our minds ara deba fed by We. objcófs; This is to be meant in regard of us, not as though any thing that God bath made were vile, but our corruption makes us vile ; when -we looke upon vile things, we are apt to run a whoring after them, and our affeGhons to bee hampered by them ; but God can daily and every houre fee and looke what vile things men doe ; for he herpes a con tinuall and an uninterrupted hatred of them, as the Pfalmiil (ayes, He is angry with the wicked every day, fo hee hates their courfes every day. Againe, does God know all mens fins ? then this confutes the Anomifts, that fay God cannot fee the fns ofhis people, God fees no fin in his people fay they ; abufing that place there ofBalaam.He h.etb not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither bath he feces tranfgref ttae in Jfrael. Numb.z ;.zx. What's this but to pervert Scripture, hee ipeakes there of the eye of his Jullice, He does not fpeake of the eye of his Knowledge ; He fpeakes of filch things as is in the wicked : That indeed God does not fee it his people ; for it is not there to be ieete; other - wife, if Gods people fin, 'nod makes therm know and con feffe that hee fees it ; as David (ayes, O God thou k, owefl myfeolifhneffs, and my Pnnes are not hid from thee, Plàl. 69.5. The garments of lalvati'.n that God puts upon his people, are not to hoodwink:: Gods All- feeing Knowledge, but to keep off the deftroying Angell. Secondly, another Life is to condemne the moll forts of men, that doe not confider of this truth ; they little thinks that God fees all their doings. J Feare there is hard- ly any among us, that will feetne to deny but that God can fee all his wayes ; and yet we fee it is too apparent by mtns lives, that few mien do belie, hit indeed. There is this vile Atlaerfine feelking in all our hearts naturally Z 2 other- 1 A
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