The true doctrine of justification asserted and vindicated, from the errors of Papists, Arminians,…The true doctrine of justification asserted and vindicated, from the errours of Papists, Arminians,…

1. That God knoweth all sin, even the most hidden.

2. This knowledge is not a mere bare knowledge, but such as is of a Judge examining and punishing. For as the sword doth pierce and hurt, so Gods word doth see and punish, therefore it is said to be [Greek or Hebrew], that is, most exactly discerning and separating gold from dross, and judging accordingly: so that the Text speaking not barely of an omniscient eye of God, but an eye discerning▪ judging and punishing, doth in this consideration pertinently belong to the controversy. We need not be curious in distinguishing between the spirit and the soul (only the Scripture doth not confound these together) nor between the things understood by the marrow and joints, ¹which are translated from the body to the soul. This is intended in the general, by the joints, he means the minima, the least things; and by the marrow, the intima, the most secret and inward things. Having thus described the efficacy of Gods word, he layeth down two Propositions in my Text; one negative, the other affirmative. Negative, There is no creature, [Greek or Hebrew] inapparent, but he seeth through it. Affirmative, All things are naked and opened, opened is more then naked: Naked, is that which is not clothed or covered; Opened, is that, whose inwards are discovered and made conspicuous. Much is said by Critics concerning the word [Greek or Hebrew] ▪ Cameron thinks it translated from wrestlers, who are said [Greek or Hebrew] their adversary, when they so take him by the neck, and turn him upside down, so as to object him in every part to the eyes of the beholders: some say, the Metaphor may be taken from those, who being before the Judge, hold down their neck and face to the ground, as not daring to behold his face: but that which is most received, and which is most consonant to the context, is of those who take the word from those who begin at the neck, and divide the sacrifice in the middle, so that all the inwards do appear. Thus you see how emphatical and full the Scripture is in describing of Gods