The harmonie of Holie Scriptures vvith the seuerall sentences of sundry learned and vvorthy vvriters : collected for the comfort of all such as are desirous to seeke after theyr soules health / by I.B.

§. 2.

Besides, thus speaketh the Lord himselfe interrogatiuelie, by the mouth of Ieremy, saying: Am I a GOD at hand, and not a GOD farre off? Can any hide himselfe in secrete places, that I shall not see him, saith the Lord? Doe not I fill heauen and earth, saith the Lord?

And, to this effect likewise, tendeth the speech of the Prophet Dauid in the 139. psalme, where he saith: O Lord, thou hast tryed mee, & knowne mee: thou knowest my sitting, & my rising, thou vnderstan∣dest my thought a farre off: thou compas∣sest my pathes, and my lying downe, and art accustomed to all my wayes.

For, there is not a word in my tongue, but loe, thou knowest it vvholie, ô lord. Thou holdest mee straite behinde and be∣fore▪ and layest thy hand vpon mee. Thy knowledge is too wonderfull for mee: it is so high that I cannot attaine vnto it.

Whether shall I goe from thy Spirit? or whether shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend into heauen, thou art there: If I lie downe in hell, thou art there.

Let mee take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the vttermost parts of the sea,

yet thither shall thy hand leade mee, & thy right hand hold mee. If I say, yet the dark∣nesse shall hide me, euen the night shall be light about mee. Yea, the darknes hideth not from thee: but the night shineth as the day; and the darknes and the light are both alike. For, thou hast possessed my reines: thou hast couered mee in my mothers vvombe.

Notes

• Iere, 23, 23, 24.
• Psalme, 139. 1. 2, 3, &c.