Man ashiv le-Yahoweh, or, A serious enquiry for a suitable return for continued life,…

Secondly, It is a full view; As God seeth all the evil in any one secret sin, so he seeth all thy secret sins. Man may know none of them; thou knowest some of them, but God knoweth all. When thou turnest thy back to go into secret to commit sin, Remember then, thou art before Gods face.

Thirdly, It is a constant view; What we have seen with our eyes might be quite razed out of our memories, but not out of Gods knowledge; and when God is said to remember our iniquities no more, it is not to be understood of real Oblivion, but gracious remission.

Fourthly, It is a judicial view; If we speak of the secret sins of an hypocrite or a wicked man, then God sets them in his sight, as a Judge sets before him the crimes of a Malefactor, that they may be read; he accused, convicted, and executed. If we speak of the secret sins of Gods ⟨p. 224⟩people, God sets them before him as a Father doth the miscarriages of his child, not to disinherit him for it, but to correct him and chastise him.

Fourthly, It is a judicial view; If we speak of the secret sins of an hypocrite or a wicked man, then God sets them in his sight, as a Judge sets before him the crimes of a Malefactor, that they may be read; he accused, convicted, and executed. If we speak of the secret sins of Gods ⟨p. 224⟩people, God sets them before him as a Father doth the miscarriages of his child, not to disinherite him for it, but to correct him and chastise him.