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6 know not God nor his word, who never heard of Jesus Christ, or salvation, are acquainted with: They, I say, by seeing and reading the mighty works of God in the world, confess and say, verily, there is a God, and none but God could create these glorious creatures, the sun, moon, and stars.

So likewise, there are two special books, by which God will judge all the sons and daughters of men at the last day; and these are, First, The book of his remembrance, written by himself; wherein the lives of men, yea, their very thoughts are recorded, as David saith, Psalm xciv. 11. The Lord knoweth the thoughts of men that they are vanity. And Psalm cxxxix. 1,—4. Saith David, ''O Lord! thou hast searched me and known me, Thou knowest my down-sitting and my up-rising. Thou understandest my thoughts afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. There is not a word in my mouth, but lo, O Lord! thou knowest it ''. And although the heart of man as Jeremiah saith, Jer. xvii. 9, 10. is deceitful above all things; yet God doth exactly know every turning and corner thereof I the Lord, search the heart, saith he, I the reins. There is nothing can be from his eternal all-seeing eye.

And then, Secondly, there is the book