I Wish that since the eye of my God is ever on me, 2my eye may be ever on him, and I may be so pious as ⟨p. 534⟩to carry my self all the day long as in his presence. What ever I do my God observeth, whatever I speak my God heareth, whatever I think he knoweth; I may call every place I come into Mizpeh, The Lord watcheth and observeth; Ah how holy should he be, who hath always to do with so pure and jealous a Majesty! The Jews were to dig and cover the natural excrements of their bodies, because the Lord their God walked in the midst of their camp. Sin is the spiritual excrement of my soul, and infinitely more odious and loathsome to my God; O how watchful should I be against it, who walk ever in his company! The Sun is said by some to be all eye, because it hath a thousand beams in every place, it filleth the largest windows, and peepeth in at the smallest key-hole, it shineth on the Princes Palace, and the Poor mans Cottage; the Heavens above, the Earth beneath, and Air between, it looks on every person with so direct a countenance, as if it beheld none beside. The natural Sun is darkness to the Sun of righteousness; the whole world to him is a sea of glass, he seeth it thorough and thorough; The Watch-maker knoweth all the wheels and pins and motions in the Watch; He that made me, cannot be ignorant of me, nor of any thing in me, or done by me. Whether I be in my Shop, or Closet, Abroad, or at Home, in Company, or Alone, the Hand of my God is with me, and the Eye of my God upon me; O that I could set him ever before me, and set my self ever before him; that I could always see him, who always seeth me, and like a Sun-dial so receive this Sun in the morning, as to go along with him all the day; Lord, thou searchest and knowest me, thou knowest my down-sitting, and ⟨p. 535⟩uprising, thou understandest my thoughts afar off; Thou compassest my paths and lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways; For there is not a word in my tongue, but O Lord thou knowest it altogether; Whither shall I go from thy Spirit, and whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up to Heaven, tho• art there; If I make my bed in Hell, behold thou art there; If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the utmost parts of the Sea, even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me; If I say, surely the darkness shall cover me, even the night shall be light about me;
I Wish that since the eye of my God is ever on me, 2my eye may be ever on him, and I may be so pious as ⟨p. 534⟩to carry my self all the day long as in his presence. What ever I do my God observeth, whatever I speak my God heareth, whatever I think he knoweth; I may call every place I come into Mizpeh, The Lord watcheth and observeth; Ah how holy should he be, who hath always to do with so pure and jealous a Majesty! The Iews were to dig and cover the natural excrements of their bodies, because the Lord their God walked in the midst of their camp. Sin is the spiritual excrement of my soul, and infinitely more odious and loathsom to my God; O how watchful should I be against it, who walk ever in his company! The Sun is said by some to be all eye, because it hath a thousand beams in every place, it filleth the largest windows, and peepeth in at the smallest key-hole, it shineth on the Princes Pallace, and the Poor mans Cottage; the Heavens above, the Earth beneath, and Air between, it looks on every person with so direct a countenance, as if it beheld none beside. The natural Sun is darkness to the Sun of righteousness; the whole world to him is a sea of glass, he seeth it thorough and thorough; The Watch-maker knoweth all the wheels and pins and motions in the Watch; He that made me, cannot be ignorant of me, nor of any thing in me, or done by me. Whether I be in my Shop, or Closet, Abroad, or at Home, in Company, or Alone, the Hand of my God is with me, and the Eye of my God upon me; O that I could set him ever before me, and set my self ever before him; that I could always see him, who always seeth me, and like a Sun-dyal so receive this Sun in the morning, as to go along with him all the day; Lord, thou searchest and knowest me, thou knowest my down-sitting, and ⟨p. 535⟩uprising, thou understandest my thoughs afar off; Thou compassest my paths and lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways; For there is not a word in my tongue, but O Lord thou knowest it altogether; Whither shall I go from thy Spirit, and whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up to Heaven, tho• art there; If I make my bed in Hell, behold thou art there; If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the utmost parts of the Sea, even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me; If I say, surely the darkness shall cover me, even the night shall be light about me;
- 2Motive. Gods eye is on thee all the day lo•g.
