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The fourth (and last) volume of discourses, or sermons, on several scriptures by Exekiel Hopkins ...
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Hopkins, Ezekiel, 1634-1690.
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any thing from the piercing discovery of his Eye He knows our Thoughts those Nimble and those Spiritual Things that are so quick in their flight that they cannot be seized upon by any Creature in the World God knows them the Devil cannot know them nor can an Angel know them yet God discerns our Thoughts more clearly than we can discern the Faces of one another he sees our Thoughts afar off as the Psalmist tells us he sees our Thoughts in their first Conception when they first begin to heave in our Breasts he knows the least Windings and Turnings of our Souls Now would not this compose us to an habitual and holy Awe of God to be continually thinking that whatsoever we do God's Eye is now upon us Let every one say within himself Where-ever I am or whatever I do I am in the Presence of the Holy God who takes notice of all my Carriages there is not a Glance of mine Eye but his Eye observes it there is not an irreverent or unseemly Gesture but he takes notice of it there is not a Thought of mine can escape but he knows that Thought and he knows my Down-lying and Vp-rising c. Let this Consideration season your Lives and Conversations be still pondering in your Minds That whatsoever you are doing his Eye is upon you and he is present with you Secondly Consider That God not only sees into all you do but he sees it to that very end that he may examine and search into it He doth not only behold you with a common and indifferent Look but with a searching watchful and inquisitive Eye he pries into the Reasons the Motives the Ends of all your Actions Psal 11.4 it is said The Lord's Throne is in Heaven his Eyes behold his Eye-lids try the Children of Men. Rev. 1.14 where Christ is described it is said His Eyes are as a Flame of Fire You know the Property of Fire is to search and make trial of those things that are exposed unto it and to separate the Dross from the pure Metal So God's Eye is like Fire to try and examine the Actions of Men he knows and discerns how much your very purest Duties have in them of mixture and base ends of Formality Hypocrisie Distractedness and Deadness he sees through all your Specious Pretences that which you cast as a Mist before the Eyes of Men when yet thou art but a Juggler in Religion all your Tricks and Sleights of Outward Profession all those things that you use to cozen and delude Men withal they cannot possibly impose upon him he is a God that can look through all those Fig-leaves of Outward Profession and discern the Nakedness of your Duties through them In the last place Thirdly God tries all your Cases and Actions in order to an Eternal Judgment and Sentence to be passed upon them This Consideration might damp the stoutest Sinner's Heart in the whole World Believe it Sirs God doth not only see your ways but he sees them so as to remember them against you another day though you have forgot what you have thought and what you have spoken and what you have done yet God for ever remembers them and at that day he will sadly recall all these things again to your remembrance Oh! that therefore this might prevail with you so to do every thing as being now already under the Eye of God and shortly must be under his Doom and Sentence Now if God should send an Angel to stand at our Backs and tell us whatever we are doing this Action of ours we must be judged for it should make us fearful of sinning as that Angel himself True we have no such Monitor but our Conscience performs to us the same Office Therefore charge it upon your Consciences that they still put you in mind of God that he sees you that he will judge you and that he always looks upon you and writes down in those Eternal Leaves of his Memorial-Book whatsoever proceeds from you either in Duties of Religion or the Actions of your Ordinary Course and Conversation Therefore because he is Omnipresent and sees all things stand in awe of his Omnisciency whereby he sees whatsoever we do and whereby he will try and judge us at the last day FINIS Books Printed for Jonathan Robinson ANnotations on the Holy Bible as also a Survey of the same by way of Supplement to the Annotations By S. Clarke M. A. A Brief Concordance to the Holy Bible of the most usual and useful Places which one may have occasion to seek for In a new Method By the same Author A Discourse concerning Natural and Revealed Religion evidencing the Truth and Certainty of both by Considerations for the most part not yet touched by any Recommended pursuant to the Design of Mr. Boyl's Lecture to the Consideration of Atheists Deists and Scepticks and useful to Confirm and Nourish the Faith and Piety of others By S. Nye A brief and plain Exposition and Paraphrase of the whole Book of the Revelations By S. Cradock B. D. An Exposition with practical Observations upon the Book of Ecclesiastes By A. Nisbett Minister of the Gospel Helps for Faith and Patience in Time of Affliction By J. B. Sermons preached on several Occasions By W. Bates D. D. Brief Directions for our more Devout Behaviour in time of Divine Service By H. C. The Country Curat 's Advice to his Parishioners In two Parts By the same Author The Minister's Last Advice to his People Being a Sermon preached at the Parish-Church of Almer in Dorset at the Author 's leaving that place By John Oliffe A brief Explanation of the Assembly's Catechism By S. Angier Books Printed for A. and J. Churchill A View of Universal History from the Creation to the Year of Christ 1695. wherein the most memorable Persons and Things in the known Kingdoms and Countries of the World are set down in several Columes by way of Synchronism according to their proper Centuries and Years By Francis Tallents sometime Fellow of Magdalen-College Cambridge The whole graven in 16 Copper-Plates each 15 Inches deep and 22 broad bound up into Books the Sheets lined A Work of great Exactness and Curiosity Price 16 s. The General History of the Air. By Robert Boyle Esq Quarto A Compleat Journal of the Votes Speeches and Debates both of the House of Lords and House of Commons throughout the whole Reign of Queen Elizabeth Collected by Sir Simonds Dewes Baronet and published by Paul Bowes of the Middle-Temple Esq The 2d Edition Fol. The Works of the famous Nicholas Machiavel Citizen and Secretary of Florence Written originally in Italian and from thence faithfully translated into English Fol. Mr. Lock 's Essay concerning Human Understanding The Third Edition with large Additions Fol. His Thoughts of Education Octavo The Fables of Aesop and other Mythologists made English by Sir Roger L'Estrange Kt. Fol. Two Treatises of Government The first An Answer to Filmer's Patriarcha The latter An Essay concerning the true Original Extent and End of Civil Government 8 vo Books Printed for John Taylor POol's Annotations in two Volumes Fol. the 3d Edition Mons Thevenot's Travels Folio Philips's Universal English Dictionary The 5th Edition Fol. Plutarch's Morals English'd by several Hands the 5th Vol. 8 vo Robinson's Cambridge-Phrases Osborn's Works Divine Moral Historical and Political Diogen Laertius Lives of the Philosophers 2 Vol. English'd by several Hands Dr. Eichard's Works 8 vo Ray's Nomenclator Classicus for the Use of Schools 8 vo Lord Shannon's Characters and Essays 8 vo Culpepper's School of Physick his Last Legacy Art of Distillation compleated Virgil. Not. Delph 8 vo Dr. Salmon's Medicina Practica his other Works Abadie's Vindication of the Christian Religion Couns Manner's Last Legacy Love's whole Art of Surveying his Curious Enquiries Boyle of Nature of Final Causes Experimenta Observationes Physicae Christian Virtuoso Theodora and Dydimus Seraphick Love Natural History Books Printed for John Wyat. FAmily Devotions for Sunday-Evenings in four Volumes each containing thirteen Practical Discourses with suitable Prayers for the Four Quarters of the Year A Familiar Guide to the right and profitable Receiving of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper Wherein also the Way and Method of our Salvation is briefly and plainly declared Consolations to a Friend upon the Death of his Excellent and Pious Consortâ— applicable also to a Resentment of the Loss of any other Relations and Friends The Honour due to the Civil Magistrate In a Sermon on the late Day of Thanksgiving All by Theophilus Dorrington The Excellent Woman described by her True Characters and their Opposites Being a just and instructive Representation of the Vertues and Vices of the Sex and illustrated with the most remarkable Instances in ancient and modern History Done out of French An Enquiry into several Remarkable Texts of the Old and New Testament which contain some Difficulty in them with a Probable Resolution of them in two Vol. 8 vo A Discourse concerning the Authority Stile and Perfection of the Books of the Old and New Testament with a continued Illustration of several difficult Texts throughout the whole Work In three Volumes 8 vo Some Thoughts concerning the several Causes and Occasions of Atheism especially in the Present Age with some brief Reflections on Socinianism and on a late Book entituled The Reasonableness of Christianity as deliver'd in the Scriptures 8vo