to drolvfiP.SAIAITS. Scripture would tell us that God knowes mens hearts,it fhmee' times expreff s it thus, The Lerd pc,'ndereth mesas hearts, Prov. 24.12. If God didcnely fee' hat wedge, it were another matter, but when the foule (hall heare that hee makes, and that bee ponders, and confiders mens finnes, andweighes them how haynous they are, what punifhnent they deferve, and how horrible it is that they do, how mach it is againfi his glory its a ligne of a de'prtate heart, when this Will not work. Secondly, becaufe when God fees all our finnes, it is with a molt holy and pure Eye, and filch an Eye as cannot abide filch an obje& before him, as the Prophet Habakukfpeakes, 'Mau isre ofpurer Eyes theta to behold ea'ill;thou canft not look! ontniguity, Hab.t.t ;. If God Paw our finnes with ü ch an Eye as men fèe then now and the-, it were no filch great thing; for wee know that mofe men can endure to fee our finnes well eno.igh, and like us little the worse ; but they are infinitely offenlive unto God, he fees diem with fuch an eye, that if ever the Gonfeience be a wake but to perceive how he lookes, it will burft the very heart of a man. Thirdly, becaufè when God fees our finnes, he records them he notes them in a booke. that he may never forget them ; as he told the people of the ]ewes, behold it ü written beforeme, I will recompense and render it into yoMr bofome, Iláy.65.6. fF God did fee our finnes, and ther's an end, then indeed this doatine ofGods Peeing would doe little ; naay be God would forget them againe ; yea, but when he fees, he regifters too, naffs he layes it up in record to be in Fiore by him againft the, day ; nay, he'è,les them up in Hie treafure; fc not this biduprn there by mc, and ogled smòng my Treafures? Deut. 3-.34. tww when the Soule fh-;il come to markcthis, this will wound it to the quicke, td is mutt needs doe á man good and ftrike n awe into hirn of (`Iod. ` Fooitnl;{ìecaefe whhenGods fees our finnes ;'îtis even all ohe as ¡f411 the wo -ld fhonld fee them too ; as Origen nótes for let our finnes be never fo ferret, our inward unfoundnefí'e A. never R,..,eaf.2. Reaf.3. Reaf.4.
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