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It is obserued by the Learned, that Adam after his fall or defection from God, seeing his owne nakednesse which hee procured to himselfe by his owne disobedience, being borne in a Primitiue freedome of will, to haue fled for refuge, or couert rather, to a shadie Groue in the Garden, imagining to exempt himselfe from the punishment due to his Sin, by flying to the shade to couer his Sin; implying

(say they) that Man no sooner erreth, then hee seeketh some sconce, some defence for the sinne which he commiteth. But hee that rewardeth in publike, discusseth the secrets of our hearts in priuate: The Night is to him as the Day, for hee seeth not as Man seeth; hee that securely pretendeth darkenesse for a couert to his sin, and in the presumption of his owne security expostulates with his Creator, saying, Who seeth me? shall receiue his reward in the Land of Darknesse; for the secrecie of his sinne cannot auoid the piercing and searching eye of the Lord. Let him therefore stand in feare of Gods Iudgement both in the Morning and Euening, that he may shun the Arrow that flyeth at the noone-day, and the Pestilence that killeth in the Euening.