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A90060	The all-seeing vnseen eye of God. Discovered, in a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons; at Margarets Westminster, December 30. 1646. being the day of their solemne monethly fast. / By Matthew Newcomen, Minister of the Gospel at Dedham in Essex, and one of the Assembly of Divines. Published by order of the Honourable House of Commons.	Newcomen, Matthew, 1610?-1669.	1647 (1647)	Wing N904; Thomason E369_6; ESTC R201280	33,531	55

seeth all his goings There is no darknesse or shadow of death where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves Jerem. 32.19 Jer 32.19 Great in counsel mighty in works for thine eyes are open upon all the wayes of the sons of men Thirdly God knows all the speeches of all men Every word every syllable that the tongue of any one doth mutter or whisper God knows it Psal 139 4. Psal 139.4 For there is not a word in my tongue but lo O Lord thou knowest it altogether No man that speaks a word for God his Cause or People but God knows it No man that speaks a word against God his Cause or People but God knows that too let it be spoken never so closely secretly Enoch tells us that God will at that great day execute judgment upon ungodly men for all their hard speeches which they have spoken against him Jude 15. And our Saviour tells us Jude 15. that of every idle word that men shall speak they shall give account in the day of judgement Mat. 12.36 Mat. 12.36 therefore God knows them all Fourthly God knows not only the wayes and the words Isa 66.18 1 Chron. 28.9 but even the thoughts of men Isa 66.18 I know their works and their thoughts 1 Chron. 28.9 The Lord searcheth all hearts and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts Fiftly God doth not only know the wayes and words and thoughts of men present at that instant while they are thinking speaking doing these things but when they are past and forgotten by men they are still present in the knowledge of God Job 13.27 Job 13.27 Thou lookest narrowly to all my paths thou settest a print a mark a memento upon the heels of my feet Job 14.17 Job 14.17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag Amos 8.7 and thou sowest up mine iniquity Amos 8.7 The Lord hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob Surely I will never forget any of their works Sixtly As God knows all the wayes words and thoughts of men present and past so he knows all the wayes words and thoughts of men that are to come Psal 139.2 Psal 139.2 Thou understandest all my thoughts afarre off Isa 48.8 Isa 48.8 I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously God knew what Israel would both think and doe when once they came into the land of Canaan and tells it them before ever they came there Deut. 31.21 Deut. 31.21 For I know their imaginations which they go about even now before I have brought them into the land of Canaan God knew what horrible outrages Hazael would commit when he should come to be King of Syria and tells him of it when he could scarce think there was such villany in his heart 2 King 8 12 13. 2 King 8.12 13. God knows not only what men have done or doe but what they will doe Seventhly God knows not only what men will do but he knows also what men would do if they were in such or such cases upon all occasions emergent and possible Deus cognoscit non solum quae fieri possunt a singulis sed etiam quae reipsâ fierent quavis hypothesi factâ quavis occasione proposita hae tamen occasiones sunt infinitae imò infinitiès infinitae God knew Abimelech would have defiled himself and Sarah if he had not with held him Gen. 20.6 Gen. 20.6 God knew the men of Keilah would have betrayed David into the hands of Saul if he had stayed among them 1 Sam. 23.12 1 Sam. 23.12 Here is one that 's now a private man God knows what he would be and doe if he were advanced to place of publike office and authority Here is one that is linked into a godly family hath gracious kindred and company God knows what he would be if transplanted into another family There is one that died in his infancy God knows what he would have been and done if he had lived 40 or 50 years God knows all the wayes of men past present future contingent possible Eightly God knows not only all the wayes words and thoughts of men past present future possible But in the next place God knows the hearts of all men 1 King 8.39 1 King 8.39 For thou even thou only knowest the hearts of all men God knows the hearts of all men what frame and constitution they are of whether they he holy or sinfull sincere or hypocriticall therefore it is that God in Scripture is so often said to search and try and ponder the hearts of men 1 Chro. 28.9 1 Chro. 28.9 The Lord searcheth all hearts 1 Chro. 29.17 I know also my God 29.17 that thou tryest the heart and hast pleasure in uprightnesse Prov. 17.3 Prov. 17.3 The fining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold but the Lord tryeth the heart Prov. 21.2 Prov. 21.2 The Lord pondereth the heart These three words of searching trying pondering the holy Ghost used to set out that full exact discerning criticall knowledge which God hath of the frame and temper of mens hearts Ninthly As God knows the frame and temper of all mens hearts so God knows all the purposes and intendments that are in the hearts of men In the verse before my text it is said of the word of God That it is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart Heb. 4.12 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are properly the secret and inward workings of passions and affections and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are the secret and first workings of mens understandings and apprehensions Now both the one and the other God sees them and therefore that is rendred as a reason why the word of God doth discern them The word of God is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart for there is no creature that is not manifest in his sight but all things are naked and open even the intents and purposes of mens hearts Job 33.17 These and these things Job 33.17 saith Elihu God doth to withdraw man from his purpose c. Tenthly God knows the iuclinations and desires of all mens hearts Isa 32.6 The vilde person will speak vildely and his heart will work iniquity Isa 32.6 God sees the hearts of wicked men hankering and propending after their wickednesse Ezck. 33.31 his heart will work iniquity Ezek. 33.31 They come before thee as my people cometh and they sit before thee as my people sitteth and they hear thy words but they will not doe them but their heart goeth after their covetousnesse God faw that though they pretended to be devout and religious attenders upon his word yet the bent and by as of their heart was after the world Their heart was toward their covetousnes And so again God seeth how the bent and inclination of his peoples heart is towards him Jer. 12.3 Jer. 12.3 Thou O Lord knowest me thou hast seen me and

of God Dost thou beleeve this if not thou art an Atheist if thou dost and yet tremblest not thou art I know not what to call thee if possible thou art worse then an Atheist that beleevest all thy sins to be this day naked and open unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do and yet thou tremblest not Doest thou know poor man worm doest thou know with what an eye God looks upon thy sins It may be thou thinkest God beholds thy sins as Gallio beheld the Jews abusing and beating Sosthenes before the judgement seat But Gallio cared for none of those things And thinkest thou so of God Let me tell thee then First God beholds and looks upon all thy sins with a strict watchfull observing censorious eye Prov. 15. 21. The wayes of man are before the eyes of the Lord Prov. 15.21 and he pondereth all his goings God doth so strictly and exactly eye thy sins as that he knows not only the number of them but the measure proportion weight of every one of them 1 Sam. 2.3 1 Sam. 2.3 God is a God of knowledge and by him actions are weighed God weighes and observes how much wilfullnesse presumption contempt of God is in every sin how heavy and hainous thy sins are That eye of God unto which all thy sins are naked and open it is a strict observing pondering eye Secondly It is a pure holy severe eye an eye flaming with indignation against every sin Habab 1.13 Hab. 1.13 Thou art of purer eyes then to behold evil and canst not look upon iniquity Indeed if God saw thy sins with such an eye as men doe it need not much trouble thee Men can see thy sins and wink at them see thy sins and like thee never the worse for them But O couldest thou see that angry flaming revengefull eye wherewith God seeth all thy sins it would make thy heart even die within thee I have read of Marius and Attilas and some others that they have had such fiery sparkling eyes as that when they have been set upon by enemies the very sparks of fire darting out of their eyes hath struck such a trembling into the hearts of their assailants as hath made them let fall their weapons O that thou couldest see with what an eye God looks upon thy sins 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God hath a revenging eye one aspect of this eye of God is able to make the whole earth to tremble Psal 104.32 He looketh on the earth and it tremileth Psal 104.32 and shall this eye of God be upon thee and all thy wayes and yet thou not tremble Thirdly Consider this God unto whose pure pondering severe revengefull eye all thy sins are naked and open is the God which will one day judge thee for these sins of thine which his own eye hath seen For God will bring every work into judgement and every secret thing whether it be good or evil Eccles 12.14 Eccles 12.14 * Ipse autem Testu Iudex est quem nulla peccatrix conscientia effugere poterit Omnia enim noda aperta sunt oculis ejus Nunquid Dominus judicans quaefiturus est testes per quos discat quis s●s unde potest falli quis sis qui noverat quis esses suturus Te interrogat non atrum de te interrogat autem te non ut discat à te sed ut consundat te Ipse autem Judex erit Testis c. And he himself will be both the Judge and the witnesse whom no guilty conscience can escape for all things are naked and open unto his eyes saith Augustine and again will God when he comes to judgement call in witnesses to be informed by them what manner of person thou art how can he be mistaken in judging what a one thou art who knew before thou wert what an one thou wouldest be God will question thee and not others concerning thee and God will question thee not to get information from thee but to put confusion upon thee And O my brethren think I beseech you how great confusion will fall upon every sinner in that day when the righteous and holy God shall from his own sight and knowledge convince the drunkard of his drunkennesse the adulterer of his uncleannesse the perverter of Justice of his bribes and every other sinner of their severall secret personall sins when God shall say unto them as Elisha did to Gehezi Went not my heart with thee when the man turned back from his chariot to meet thee So when God shall say to thee in that day Went not my heart with thee when thou and thy companions in wickednesse met in such and such a place when you plotted acted such and such villanies did not I stand by and look on O would proud and sinfull man think of this eye and this day how would it make him come down sit in the dust and cloath himself with trembling In * In illo magno metuendo district●que judicio nudi miseri contristati contriti humiliati excervicati cum temere metu c. assistemus Nobis aderunt Angeli Throni Libri de Actibus nostris aperientus Iudicium mirum audire trenendum autem videre omnem hominem subito rationem reddentem de verbis de actibus de cogitationibus per diem noctem quemad modum ipse peccavit August Serm. 8o. de adventis ad-judicium Ecce in quo periculo incessanter confisto nisi quia non semper cogito Eò autem miserior quò oblivisci possum Semper enim videt me Dens peccata mea semper mihi intimatur districta sententia sic sum positus cum vigilo cum dormio sic cum rideo cum laetor sic cum superbio cum irascor sic cum contristor cum delicia● amplect or denique sic sum semper ubique August Medit cap. 22 that great dreadfull and strict judgement we shall stand naked sorrowfull trembling saith Augustine the Angels and Thrones of Heaven shall be about us the books and records of our lives shall be opened every man presently shall give an account of himself of all his thoughts words actions of all the sins that ever he hath committed by night or by day This is a judgement saith he wonderfull to see and dreadfull to hear The thoughts and remembrance of it made such deep impressions upon the heart of this holy man that in another place he saith Behold in what danger I stand continually though I do not continually think of it and the more wretched I that I can forget it for God alwayes seeth me and all my sins a strict sentence alwaies awaits me in this condition I am when I wake and when I sleep when I laugh and when I am sad when I am proud and when I am passionate sic sum semper ubique thus I am alwaies and everywhere O could sinners when they are in