An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…

But some may here object or question, Is this true only of the righteous? Doth the Lord at any time withdraw his eyes from the unrighteous? truly that would be very good news to many unrighteous persons, they would be glad that they and their way might be hid from God, or that God would not look upon them.

But some may here object or question, Is this true only of the righteous? Doth the Lord at any time withdraw his eyes from the unrighteous? truly that would be very good newes to many unrighteous persons, they would be glad that they and their way might be hid from God, or that God would not look upon them.

I answer, This Scripture is not to be so understood, as if God did behold the righteous and not the wicked, for (Prov. 15.3.) The eyes of the Lord are every where, beholding the evil and the good, whether things done or persons doing them. The Lord doth not withdraw his eyes from the most unrighteous persons, nor from any of their acts or ways of unrighteousness. And when it is said here, The Lord withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous, it is meant of a peculiar eye, which the Lord hath upon the righteous; he beholds both the righteous and the unrighteous, yet he doth not behold the unrighteous, as he beholds the righteous; which I shall clear further by giving in a five-fold discovery, what that eye of the Lord is which is upon the righteous, four of which are distinct and totally differing from that eye with which he beholdeth unrighteous men, and from every one of them I shall give you an observation for our further profiting by this general assertion, that the Lord withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous. There is a five-fold eye of God spoken of in Scripture.

I answer, This Scripture is not to be so understood, as if God did behold the righteous and not the wicked, for (Prov. 15.3.) The eyes of the Lord are every where, beholding the evil and the good, whether things done or persons doing them. The Lord doth not withdraw his eyes from the most unrighteous persons, nor from any of their acts or wayes of unrighteousness. And when it is said here, The Lord withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous, it is meant of a peculiar eye, which the Lord hath upon the righteous; he beholds both the righteous and the unrighteous, yet he doth not behold the unrighteous, as he beholds the righteous; which I shall clear further by giving in a five-fold discovery, what that eye of the Lord is which is upon the righteous, foure of which are distinct and totally differing from that eye with which he beholdeth unrighteous men, and from every one of them I shall give you an observation for our further profiting by this general assertion, that the Lord withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous. There is a five-fold eye of God spoken of in Scripture.