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God acknowledged, or, The true interest of the nation and all that fear God…
God acknowledged, or, The true interest of the nation and all that fear God opened in a sermon preached December the 11th, 1695 : being the day appointed by the king for public prayer and humiliation / by Benjamin Keach.God acknowledged, or, The true interest of the nation and all that fear God opened in a sermon preached December the 11th, 1695 : being the day appointed by the king for publick prayer and humiliation / by Benjamin Keach.
London: printed for William Marshal, 1696
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. The perfect Knowledge God hath of whatsoever is done throughout the whole Earth.
2. His Providence over all, even over the whole Earth, in ordering and disposing of all things therein, and particularly his care of his own People; His eyes behold, his eye-lids try the children of men, Psal. 11. 4. The Lord doth not only know all things and persons, but he hath a clear understanding of them: All things are naked and manifest to his eyes with whom we have to do. Heb. 4. 13. The Eye of God signifies the Knowledge of God, he sees as well what is in Man, as what is done by Man; He knows our thoughts a far off, before they are conceived, he knows what they will be; there is nothing done, nor intended to be done, but it is known by the Almighty; his Eyes are like a flaming Fire, of a piercing and and penetrating Nature: The eyes of the Lord are every where, beholding the evil and the good, Prov. 15. 3. Man sees the Face, the outside, but God searcheth and discerneth the Heart; the Eyes of Man may be deceived, but the Eyes of God cannot; Christ 'tis said, needed not that any should testify of man, for he knew what was in man, Joh. 2. 25. this shows that he is the Eternal God, for, thou knoweth all things, (saith Peter) thou knoweth that I love thee, 21. 17. God's sight of Man, and of his Ways are Universal, and Everlasting; he saw all things with one single look from Everlasting to Everlasting; he knows all things past, present, and to come: For his eyes are upon all the ways of man, and he seeth all his doings; there is no darkness nor shadow of death where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves, Job 35. 21, 22: and as God is a God of Knowledge, so to acknowledge him, is to acknowledge his Omniscience.
2. His Providence over all, even over the whole Earth, in ordering and disposing of all things therein, and particularly his care of his own People; His eyes behold, his eye-lids try the children of men,