Verse 3. The eyes of the Lord [are] in every place, beholding the evil and the good.Verse 3. The eies of the Lord [are] in euery place, beholding the euill and the good.
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Verse 3. The eyes of the Lord [are] in every place, beholding the evil and the good.
Verse 3. The eies of the Lord [are] in euery place, beholding the euill and the good.
THE eyes of the Lord] His certain sight and knowledge. He speaketh of God according to man, attributing eyes unto him, (which he, being a spirit, hath not) because we see with our eyes, and best know the things which we see. [in every place] wheresoever any man is: [behold] not only discern and perceive, but purposely observe and mark, and that continually, as the form of the word in that Participle importeth: [the evil and the good] all sorts of men, together with their hearts and ways.
THE eies of the Lord] His certaine sight and knowledge. He speaketh of God according to man, attributing eies vnto him, (which he, being a spirit, hath not) because we see with our eies, and best know the things which wee see. [in euery place] wheresoeuer any man is: [behold] not only discerne and perceiue, but purposely obserue and marke, and that continually, as the forme of the word in that Participle importeth: [the euill and the good] all sorts of men, together with their hearts and waies.
Doct. All men are always in Gods presence: When they see not him, he eyeth and looketh on them, wheresoever they be, and howsoever occupied: as David saith, not concerning himself only, but every man else in the same manner: Thou knowest my sitting and my rising: Thou understandest my thought 1afar off: Thou compassest my paths and my lying down, and art accustomed to all my ways.
Doct. All men are alwaies in Gods presence: When they see not him, he eieth and looketh on them, wheresoeuer they bee, and howsoeuer occupied: as Dauid saith, not concerning himselfe only, but euery man else in the same manner: Thou knowest my sitting and my rising: Thou vnderstandest my thought