to dn./IV/it S A I N T S. 173 but bath need that truth fhould be urged upon us, that God beholds all iniquity and evill ; we can never doe amiffc,but he takes notice of it, Thirdly, another tile is ; is it Co that God fees all mens fins ? Then this is a terror to all that goe on with a felfè- condemning heart. O confider what tiae Apefile layes, if our Heart con - demne me, God is greater then our heart, and he knowes all things, i Joh.3.zo.q.d. if. we have a late- condemning heart, how much more fhall wee find a fel'e-condemning God ? If our own heart can find us out,if that can find out our world - lineffe,or our irreverence,or ourcarelelixtfe of God,how much more will God find us out ? He knowes all out fins better then wee our (elves ? and therefore, O lct us quake all of us to goe on with a lelfe- condemning heart ; is is a bid badge,it is a prodigious token of the reareful l judgement of God ; if \ti ee doe not get our fins done away. by the blood of Jetu s Chrift, and by his fanóifÿ ing Spirit, God will finde us out ; for hee knowes what we are, and what wee due daily, and how we live every day and boure. Againe, this is a terror to them that are Hypocrites ; If God could not fee a rotten heart, he fhould fpeed as well as the b,ff. O but Cayes God, I the Lord fearch the heart. J try the reynes, even to give every man ac- cording to bù wages and according to the fruit of his doings. Jcr.r 7.a o. and therefore we be to (itch as arc otherwife with- in then they time to be without, they are painted fepulchers, but within they are full ofrottenneffe,they profeffe godlinelfe but they fuller within a Worldly fpirit, a guilty Confcience, a vaine mmde, an unbelieving heart, no love of God, no reale to his glory, no feeling ofthe Churches mifery, no compaffìon with the Saints, no delight in them that feire God indeed ; and yet they will gee for Chriliians forfooth. God fees all their worker,' and. will unmask them in his due time, either in this world, osin the world to come, and will poure everlafa- ingcontempt on them. Fourthly, this is comfort togood people, for if God fee all mens fins, then he fees all mews goodsrege much rather; Z 3 what, Tfe 3. Vfe I,
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