The truly blessed man

2. When you have done all you cannot hide them from God. What though you keep them from the sight and knowledge of men? They believe your denials, or are satisfied with your excuses, and hereby you prevent censures or reproach for the present? How poor a thing is this? Man is not to be your Judge, but God, who knows all; your secrecy is to him as the Sun light; midnight and noon day are alike to his all knowledge; when no eye seeth, he looketh on, and maketh an entry: your denials signify nothing to him, who knows and cannot be mistaken; your fig-leaf excuses cannot ⟨p. 171⟩cover your nakedness, but he seeth through all: to what purpose then will this be, when he shall tell you, I know and am a witness? Believe the truth of, Psal. 90.8. Thou hast set our secret Sins in the light of thy Countenance.

2. When you have done all you cannot hide them from God. What though you keep them from the sight and knowledge of men? They believe your denials, or are satisfyed with your excuses, and hereby you prevent censures or reproach for the present? How poor a thing is this? Man is not to be your Judge, but God, who knows all; your secrecy is to him as the Sun light; midnight and noon day are alike to his all knowledge; when no eye seeth, he looketh on, and maketh an entry: your denyals signify nothing to him, who knows and cannot be mistaken; your fig-leaf excuses cannot ⟨p. 171⟩cover your nakedness, but he seeth through all: to what purpose then will this be, when he shall tell you, I know and am a witness? Believe the truth of, Psal. 90.8. Thou hast set our secret Sins in the light of thy Countenance.

3. All these tricks are a provocation to him, and he counts them foolishness. You may think your selves wise and politic, when you thus wind and double, but he Laughs at your egregious folly in it,