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Rh ſin, and multiply your ſins; but be ſure God keeps a juſt account, and none of your ſins, tho' ever ſo ſecret, ſhall be forgotten. There is a book of God's memory, it is called a book of remembrance, Mal. iii 16. 'A book of remembrance was written before God, for them that feared the Lord and called upon his name.' This is that which manifeſts all ſecrets: This is that which reveals all doings, whether good or evil. In theſe records are found at large, Abel's ſacrifice, and Cain's murder, Abſalom's rebellion, and David's devotion, the Jews' cruelty, and the prophets' innocency. Nothing ſhall be hid when this book is opened, for all may run and read it, 'God will bring every work into judgement, with every ſecret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil, Eccleſ xii. 4. Wail, ye wicked and tremble in aſtoniſhment. Now your cloſet ſins muſt be diſcloſed, and your private faults laid open.

Imprimis, For adultery, envy, blaſphemy, drunkeneſs, oaths, violence, murder, ſabbath-breaking, lying, and every other ſin from the beginning to the end, from your birth to your death, the total ſum is eternal death and damnaton. But there is another book, that ſhall give a more fearful evidence than the former, that is ſecretary in the ſoul of man: No man can commit a ſin, but the ſoul that is privy to the fact will write it in his book: What a woful caſe will thy poor heart be then in? What a ſtrong terror of trembling muſt it then ſtand poſſeſt with, when this book ſhall be opened