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A65297	Gods anatomy upon mans heart. Or, A sermon preached by order of the Honorable House of Commons, at Margarets Westminster, Decemb. 27. Being a day of publick humiliation By Thomas Watson, pastor of Stephens Walbrooke, London.	Watson, Thomas, d. 1686.	1654 (1654)	Wing W1125A; ESTC R220974	18,171	56

all written in thy Book 2. Afarre off that is either 1. God knows our thoughts before we our selves know them He knows what designes are in the heart and men would certainly pursue did not he turne the wheele another way God knew what was in Herods minde before Herod himself knew it viz. that he would have destroyed the childe Jesus God knew his thoughts afarre off he sees what blood and venome is in the heart of a sinner though it never comes to have vent he looks at the intention though it be not put in execution Secondly Afarre off that is God knows our thoughts when we have forgotten them they are afarre off to us but they are present with him These things hast thou done and I kept silence thou thoughtest I was such a one as thy selfe c. That is that I had a weak memory but I will reprove thee and set thy sinnes in order before thee * Millions of years are but as a short Parenthesis between and that we may not thinke God forgets he keeps a Book of Records Rev. 20. 12. I saw the dead small and great stand before the Lord and the Books were opened God writes down Item such a sinne and if the Book be not discharged there will be an heavy reckoning to every beleever the debt-book is crossed the black lines of sinne are crossed out in the red lines of Christs blood To instance in one Scripture more The night shineth as the day Psal. 39. 12. The Cloudes are no Canopy the night is no Curtain to draw between or intercept his knowledge we cannot write our sinnes in so small or strange a character but God can read he hath a key for them Indeed we know not sometimes what to make of his Providences His way is in the Sanctuary * we cannot read his hand-writing but He understands our Hearts without a commentary He is privy to all our treachery though we think to keep it under lock and key We cannot climb so high but he sees us we cannot dig so low but he takes notice The men of Babel were climbing very high they would make a City and Tower the top whereof should reach to heaven and so indeed it did for God saw them all the while and what became of it He divided their language * Achan digs deep to hide his counsels saying No eye shall see he takes the Babylonish garment and hides it in the earth with the wedge of Gold but God unmasks his theevery * If there be any here that when they should have been doing Gods work have been by stealth hiding the Babylonish garment making themselves rich feathering their own nests instead of driving in nailes into Gods Temple to fasten it have been driving a wedge of gold into their chests God sees it let me tell you all the gaine you get you may put in your eyes nay if you belong to God you must and weep it out againe God hath a window that looks into your hearts Momus complained of Vulcan that he had not set a grate at every mans breast God hath such a grate he is the great Superintendent we come into the world as upon a Theatre every man acts his severall Part or Scene God is both the Spectator and the Judge You have seen the Doctrine proved For the Amplification let us consider what the knowledge of God is it is a most pure act by which he doth at one instant know himselfe in himself and all things without himselfe not only necessary and contingent but which shall never be after a most perfect exquisite and infallible manner Out of this description we may gather two things 1. That there is no Succession in Gods knowledge it is uno intuitu our knowledge is per ●rius posterius from the effect to the cause it is not so in God 2. Things that are not have an objective being in his knowledge Rom. 4. 17. He calls things that are not as if they were even these non entia have an Idea in his knowledge Quest Here a question may be started If there be such perfection in the knowledg of God then he knows sin Resp. The Schools distinguish of a double knowledge in God There is 1. Scientia simplicis intelligentiae a knowledge of pure intelligence and thus he knows evil by a contrary good as the light discovers the darknesse So we say Rectum est index sui obliqui The straight rule shews the crooked 2. There is a knowledge of approbation Thus God doth not know sinne for he hates it he punisheth it Christ was made sinne yet he knew no sinne he did know it so as to hate it not so as to act or approve it I passe to the Reasons 1. Reason From his creation God is the Father of lights therefore must needs see It is his own Argument He that planted the eare shall he not heare he that formed the eye shall he not see He that makes a Watch knows all the pins and wheels in it and though these wheels move crosse one to another he knows the true and perfect motion of the Watch and the spring that sets these wheels a going He that formed the eye shall he not see Man may be compared to a spiritual Watch The affections are the wheels the heart is the spring the motion of this Watch is false the heart is deceitful but God that made this watch knowes the true motion of it be it never so false and the spring that sets the wheels a going God knows us better then we know our selves He is as Ezekiels wheels full of eyes and as Augustin saith he is totus oculus all eye * 2. Reason From his ubiquity He is Omniscient because Omnipresent Ier. 23. 24. Do not I fill heaven and earth He is no where included and yet no where excluded His circumference is every where God hath an eye in Councels in Armies he makes an Heartanatomy he sees what mens designes are and whither they are driving If hatred weares the livery of Friendship if Ambition comes masqued with humility if Religion be made a stirrup to get into the saddle of preferment God sees it And though they dig into hell thence shall my hand take them Amos 9. 2. God can unlock hell Plato saith of the King of Lydia he had a Ring when he turned the head of it to the palme of his hand he could see every one but himself walk invisible Thus God observes all our actings but himselfe is not seene as the Apostle argues 1 Tim. 6. 16. Therefore the Schoolmen say well Deus est in loco repletivè Man may be circumscribed the Angels may be defined but God is in every place by way of repletion His Centre is every where and his eye is ever in his Centre Object 1. But is it not said Gen. 18. 21. I will go down and see whether it be