XLVII. NOT INVISIBLE.

A WAGGISH scholar (to say no worse), standing behind the back of his tutor, conceived himself secured from his sight, and on this confidence he presumed to make antic mocks and mouths at him. Meantime his tutor had a looking-glass (unknown to the scholar) before his face, wherein he saw all which his 234pupil did, and the pupil soon after felt something from his tutor.

Many things have been done in huggermugger in our age, profane persons conceited that their privacy protected them from Divine inspection. Some say with the wicked in the psalm, Tush, shall the Lord see?

But know that, Rev. iv. 6, before the throne there was a sea of glass, like unto crystal. This is God’s omnisciency. Sea, there is the largeness; crystal, there is the pureness thereof. In this glass all persons and practices are plainly represented to God’s sight, so that such who sin in secret shall suffer openly.