Useful instructions for a professing people in times of great security and degeneracy

2. He observes all things, and there is reason for it, because he administers the affairs of the whole world; Psal. 33. 13, 14, 15. All action of the creatures in the world flow as to their principle from him, and therefore he cannot but take notice of them

3. He will requite, for he is just and cannot but give them their demerit Jer 5. 29 he is the judge of the whole world, and therefore must be just, he is the highest and supreme ju•g beyond whom there is no appeal, and therefore had need be just; yea, he is engaged by his Word to do justice and execute judgment upon sinners for their sins

3. He will requite, for he is just and cannot but give them their demerit Jer 5. 29 he is the judge of the whole world, and therefore must be just, he is the highest and supream ju•g beyond whom there is no appeal, and therefore had need be just; yea, he is engaged by his Word to do justice and execute judgment upon sinners for their sins

Use 1. To show us how vain a thing it is to go about to deceive God with vain service, whiles our […] estranged from in; if we had to deal with man like our selves, we ••ght easily cast a […] before their ⟨p. 10⟩eyes, and make them believe strange matters, but God who can in no ways cheat or deceive, though we cover our service with a cloak of deceit, yet God can tell us whether it be alive or dead; and if we go about so to serve him, he will make us to know sooner or later, that he took good notice of them in the day when he comes to set our sins in order before us, and tell us this we did at such a time, and that abomination at another time: See