A golden mine opened, or, The glory of God's rich grace displayed in the…

Exam. Examine your selves; in vain it is to go about to hide or cover any thing, seeing Christ knows all we do; there is no way to hide your Sin from him. O search and try your selves, your Hearts, your States and Conditions, lest you are deceived, and conclude, you are Rich, and increased with Goods, &c. this was Laodicea's Misery.

Terror. Tremble at the Thoughts of doing one unbecoming Thing, or speaking one unbecoming Word. O Lord, said David, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my down sitting, and my uprising; ¹and art acquainted with all my Thoughts: For there is not a Word in my Tongue, but lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.

1. 1Psal. 139. 1, 2, 3, 4.

O what Terror is here for ungodly Men, that commit horrid Wickedness in secret, and say in their Hearts, No Eye seeth us! O let them know, that all their filthy and abominable Deeds of ⟨p. 105⟩Darkness, are done in the plain and open view, and sight of the great God, and Jesus Christ; and that he keeps a Record of all their cursed Works, Oaths, and ungodly Words, and will lay them all before them at the last Day: For he knoweth vain Men: he seeth Wickedness also; will he not then consider it? Men know but ¹little of God, and therefore are very unfit Judges of all his Counsels, Decrees and Actions: yet God knows Man exactly, and all his Vanity, Falsehood and Folly; let him never so carefully strive to cover and hide his Wickedness under Deceit, or a Cloak of Religion, he seeth it, it is a Knowledge by sight, therefore most easily and clearly known. God doth not know Mens Sins by hear-say; No, no, he sees it, beholds it with open Face; he is by when they commit it: They can commit no Sin out of his sight, nor do that which he knoweth not; though they are ready to say, How doth God know?