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Gen. 3. 8.
And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God, amongst the Trees of the Garden.
What fancies sin in our first Parents wrought,That they a hiding place so quickly sought
From Gods all-seeing Eye? As if that he
Who form'd the eye, were blind and could not see
Thorow the thickest trees or darkest shade,
Which in that Garden he himself had made.
Such simple fools are their posterity,
Who seek out places of obscurity
To sin unseene, and mask themselves all over,
That God should not their wicked deeds discover;
As though that they from him themselves could shrowd,
Like Juno from Ixion in a cloud.
Or like the Wood-cock hide their heads, and then,
'Cause they see none, think none sees them agen.
Be not deceiv'd, a double folly lies,
In sinning first, then hood winking Gods eyes.
All's one to him, the darknesse and the light,
The night as clear as day is in his sight.
Think not by putting of a candle out,
Or drawing of a curtain round about
Thy bed, or by fast barring of thy door,
To shut God out, or make him see no more;
Thou canst not be invisible to him,
Who did behold thy substance, every limme
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Were perfect, and received day by day,
Their form and fashion; the womb to him was
Cleare as the Chrystal, or the purest glasse.
Search the worlds closest corners o're and o're,
'Mongst all thou canst not finde a place that's more
Invisible and secret; then reveal
Thy sin to God, which thou canst not conceale;
And what thou canst not hide from him, confesse:
So seeing, hee'le not see thy wickednesse;
But with the whitest Robe wil cover thee,
That without fear or shame thou may'st him see.
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