An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…

He seeth all creatures in the glass of his own counsels through and through. His eye hath through lights in all parts of the world, and in the hearts of all men in the world.

He seeth all creatures in the glasse of his own counsels thorow and thorow. His eye hath thorow lights in all parts of the world, and in the hearts of all men in the world.

And seeing man cannot be hid from God, it is the vainest attempt for any man to think of hiding himself from God; yet that's not only the attempt, but the hope of many, who while they do what they would not have seen, please themselves with this conceit, that they are not seen in doing it, or that they can secure what they have done from being seen. We learned this of our first parents, in whom the first thing that appeared (next ⟨p. 473⟩their shame) after they had sinned, was the hiding of their sin. Man loveth to draw a curtain between God and himself, to raise up artificial darkness, and to walk in thick clouds (as he vainly hopes) undiscovered.

And seeing man cannot be hid from God, it is the vainest attempt for any man to think of hiding himself from God; yet that's not only the attempt, but the hope of many, who while they do what they would not have seen, please themselves with this conceit, that they are not seen in doing it, or that they can secure what they have done from being seen. We learn'd this of our first parents, in whom the first thing that appeared (next ⟨p. 473⟩their shame) after they had sinned, was the hiding of their sinne. Man loveth to draw a curtain between God and himself, to raise up artificiall darknesse, and to walk in thick clouds (as he vainly hopes) undiscovered.