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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63907	A discourse of the divine omnipresence and its consequences delivered in a sermon before the honourable Society of Lincolnes-Inn, upon the first Sunday of this Michaelmas term / John Turner ...	Turner, John, b. 1649 or 50.	1683 (1683)	Wing T3307; ESTC R5395	16,965	40

This was the Reason of the Disciples Question concerning the man that was born blind Master who did sin this man or his Parents that he was born blind And so in the great Tempest when Jonah was on board the Ship the Mariners presently concluded that there was some grievous sinner on board their Vessel who was the cause of the danger they were in and therefore they said every one unto his fellow come and let us cast lots that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us Which they had no sooner done but the lot fell upon Jonah and it appeared plainly by the sequel of the story that it was for his sake the Tempest was raised And upon the same account it is that Horace declares that he did not think it safe to go in the same Ship with a prophane or sacrilegious person Vetabo qui cereris sacrum Vulgarit Arcanae sub iisdem Sit trabibus fragilemque mecum Solvat Phaselum To conclude they did not only believe that God by his Judgments did pursue the wicked and at some time or other certainly overtake them but also that by a like miraculous Power he did sometimes interpose himself for the preservation of Innocence in the midst of danger So Martial said very wittily and very wisely of an House that fell down after so strange a manner that a person who then hapned to be in it got no harm and was not buried in its ruines stantia non poterant tecta probare Deum an House that had stood firm with the same person in it would not have proved the existence of a God And this is the first thing that the Consideration of the Divine Omnipresence should put us in mind of his Providence and of his Justice which are founded upon it and that it should make us the more careful to please him and to obey his Laws who is present to all our actions and intimately twisted into all our thoughts who is a perpetual witness of our behaviour here and will be the terrible Judge of it hereafter Neither ought it only to deter us from publick and open transgressions such as are committed in the view of the world and in the face of the Sun but we ought also to remember in the language of the Psalmist that he hath set our secret sins in the light of his countenance or in that of the Author to the Hebrews that he is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight but all things are naked and open in the eyes of him with whom we have to do And therefore we ought to pray with holy David that God would keep us from secret as well as from presumptuous sins Nay indeed if in this case there were to be any difference in the zeal and fervency of our Prayer to God it ought rather to be greater that he would preserve us from the former than the latter because by being concealed from the notice of the world there is the less danger of any temporal disadvantage from them and so the temptation to commit them is the stronger and another thing that is to be considered is that though it may be thought a sign of some Grace a symptom of Modesty and a token of Shame for a man to manage his wickedness in the dark and indeed there is this to be said for him that he is not so hurtful to the world by his Example yet this must be acknowledged as an aggravating Circumstance of the most private sensuality and of the most secret and undiscerned injustice that it proceeds upon an Atheistical Principle such a man hath not God always before his Eyes or else he saith in his heart there is no God he wishes there were none and he is willing to believe there is none otherwise certainly he would consider with himself that the presence of God and of an accusing Conscience that are Witnesses to his action is more than that of an hundred thousand Spectators he would consider that to do an unreasonable or a sinful thing is either to act upon supposition that God is not by which is the next thing to the denyal of his Existence or upon supposition that he will pardon it which is to sin against him and reproach him to his face for a too easie and good natur'd Being at the same time or it includes an utter and an absolute denyal of the Divine Existence and a defiance to his Power and Justice than which no greater nor more unpardonable or provoking sin can possibly be committed And certainly if we shrink away and are ashamed of our selves when we are taken napping by a mortal man like our selves a man whose breath is in his nostrils who carries the same appetites the same desires the same infirmities about him that we do and who may possibly be guilty of the same or a like wickedness which he hath detected and discovered in us a man against whom our Offence is not committed a man who seeing our frailty ought to reflect upon his own and who cannot punish our wickedness as it deserves how much more ought we to dread the presence of the most high God who is immediately affronted by us whose Majesty is so great and his Justice so impartial and his Power so irresistible But secondly The Consideration of the Divine Omnipresence or Infinite Extention ought to fill us with such awful and majestick Notions of God with such large and spacious apprehensions of his nature as are not only the most noble Object of Humane Contemplation that it can possibly pitch upon but will when duly attended to create in us a suitable love of his immense goodness and fear of his uncontroulable power and admiration of his infinite wisdom and veneration for his unbiass'd and impartial Justice We ought always to behave our selves like virtuous and good men because we are always in the Divine Presence and it is certain we shall behave our selves so much the better if we consider distinctly whose presence that is it is the presence of him that is all in all that filleth all things and is present to all the possibilities of the most unbounded space it is he who being every where governs all things after a strange and incomprehensible manner he that is as good as he is great as wise as he is good as just as he is wise as powerful as he is just he whose infinity discovers an amazing deal but hides a much greater part of his immense Majesty his vast unlimited and unbounded Nature It is impossible for us when we consider these things with a wistly and attentive mind not to love and fear him not to praise magnifie worship and adore him not to humble our selves before his mighty Throne and fall down low on our knees before his Footstool And it was this immense amplitude of the Divine Extension which Aratus made to be the