Secondly,2 Consider, Gods eye is all the day long upon thee, and therefore thou hadst need to be all the day long in his a•e. It was a frequent speech of Seneca, Ubicunque eo, quodcunque ago, ⟨p. 494⟩Demetrium circumfero; Wheresoever I go, whatsoever I do, I carry Demetrius along with me; Thou mayst upon better grounds say; Whatsoever I think, or speak, or act, wheresoever I go, whither to my Closet, or Shop, or Field, or Neighbours Houses, I have an holy jealous God along with me. Thou mayst write over every room which thou enterest into, Thou God seest me, and call it by the like name which Hagar did the Well, Beer•la-haroi; The Well of him that liveth and seeth me: Thou hast in all the passages of the day, that God with thee, who takes notice of, and will reckon with thee for every passage; Thou mayst call every place thou comest into, Bethel, or Penuel, I have seen God in this house, or, God is in this place. He is not like Jupiter of Crete, whom some pictured without ears, and publish never to be at leisure to take notice of small matters. He is all eye, all ear; He observeth the greatest, the smallest things and actions; As the Optic virtue in the eye, he seeth all, and is seen of none; Cicero tells us, the King of Lydaea had a ring, which when he turned the head of it to the palm of his hand, he was invisible to others, and yet others were visible to him. The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good, though none hath seen God at any time, nor can see him. As a well-drawn picture, which way soever you turn your self, it seems to have its eye still upon you, and to follow you; God doth that really, which the Picture doth seemingly; he beholds every person, and every action, with so direct a face, as if he beheld none or nothing else.
Secondly,2 Consider, Gods eye is all the day long upon thee, and therefore thou hadst need to be all the day long in his a•e. It was a frequent speech of Seneca, Vbicunque eo, quodcunque ago, ⟨p. 494⟩Demetrium circumfero; Wheresoever I go, whatsoever I do, I carry Demetrius along with me; Thou mayst upon better grounds say; Whatsoever I think, or speak, or act, wheresoever I go, whither to my Closet, or Shop, or Field, or Neighbours Houses, I have an holy jealous God along with me. Thou mayst write over every room which thou enterest into, Thou God seest me, and call it by the like name which Hagar did the Well, Beer•la-haroi; The Well of him that liveth and seeth me: Thou hast in all the passages of the day, that God with thee, who takes notice of, and will reckon with thee for every passage; Thou mayst call every place thou comest into, Bethel, or Penuel, I have seen God in this house, or, God is in this place. He is not like Iupiter of Creet, whom some pictured without ears, and publish never to be at leasure to take notice of small matters. He is all eye, all ear; He observeth the greatest, the smallest things and actions; As the Optick vertue in the eye, he seeth all, and is seen of none; Cicero tells us, the King of Lydaea had a ring, which when he turned the head of it to the palm of his hand, he was invisible to others, and yet others were visible to him. The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good, though none hath seen God at any time, nor can see him. As a well-drawn picture, which way soever you turn your self, it seems to have its eye still upon you, and to follow you; God doth that really, which the Picture doth seemingly; he beholds every person, and every action, with so direct a face, as if he beheld none or nothing else.
- 2Motive. God observeth us all the day long.
