to drvlvfe SAINTS. taught with a Whore, have but á few men, or but one man come and take him in the aft, O how it will gall him and vex him to be teen ! as lob fpeakes, if one k!s.w them, they are in the terrer of the jhadnr ofdeath, Job.'.}. i y. they abhorre the light, they cannot abide to be brought out to be knowne. Now beloved if this be our difpohtien by nature, that we cannot abide that fo much as a man thould know us ; nay, not a child of fix or (even yearns of age, then O what a terror is it that the God of Heaven and earth (hould know us, that hefhould fee all our lull, all our (irnefull and vile thoughts, all our uncleane and noyfome affeEli- ons, all our by-ends and earelelheffe of God ! O what a powerful' thing is this to worke upon the heart, except it be delivered up to a reprobate iénfe, to fleight God, and care lefe for him then for a little Boy, or a mortali man ? fo then yee fee. this is a powerful' meanes to work upon a foule, to know that God kaowes all his workes. Though the Woman of Samaria flood jelling, and playing, and contefling with our Saviour a good while : yet when Ghee perceived that he knew all her villany, this burl.' her heart; Ofayes fhe,this is no ether then Chriff, be bath told me all that ever I did, Joh.4. ay. The life of this ís. Firfl. here we fee they are delpe- rate that this point cannot worke on ; it's certaine they arc graceleffe that can heare that God fees all their workes, and yet it does not purge them from day to day ; its an evident argument that a man contemnes God, and makes nothing of him. When David had fhewed that the wic- ked care not for G:ds eye, they make a matter of nothing of it ; tufh God does not fee, Pfalm.torr. fay they ; that is, they ka v he law indeed, but they made nothing of it ; as long as n. n d?d not fee them, they counted Gods teeing .s nothing! no marke what follow es, wherefore doe the Wicked cons swonç God? verfe.t 3. Set'ndly is it fo, that this is fuch a powerfull meanes to we ,ke upon our hearts? let us not harden our hearts, A a but 119 Yfe á.
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