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[ 509] Consideration of Gods Omnipresence, to be the Sinners curb.

CAmbden in his Britannia,* 1.1 maketh mention of a great high Hill in Stafford∣shire, called Weever, under which there is a little Village called Wotton; Now this Village being seated in so sad a dreary, dolesom place, the Sun not shining in∣to it any further then on the tops of the houses, by reason of the height of the hills over-topping it, the people of the place have been observed to chant out this note;

Wotton under Weever, Where God came never.

This now were an excellent place for a rapacious rich man to make a purchase of, and then to plant a Colony there, where God came never; A good place for Drunk∣ards to swill in,* 1.2 for Epicures to surfeit in, for the voluptuous to take pleasure in, for the Prodigall to riot in &c▪ But let them all know that God is at Wotton, and God is with them all,* 1.3 in all places, at all times, every where included, no where ex∣cluded; Whither shall 〈◊〉〈◊〉 fly (said David) from thy presence?

Notes

• * 1.1

  Tho. Fullers Serm. at Clem. Eastch. Lond. 1650.
• * 1.2

  -locis praesens fimul est Deus omnibus unus. Prosper.
• * 1.3

  Psalm. 139. 7.