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Open rebuke is better then secret loue.

For God shal bring euery worke into iudgement, with euer secret thing, whether it bee good, or whether it bee euill.

1611 marginal noteRom.2.16 and 14.10. 1.cor.5.10.

¶ O my doue! that art in the clefts of the rocke, in the secret places of the staires: let me see thy countenance, let me heare thy voice, for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.

Therefore the LORD will smite with a scab the crowne of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discouer their secret parts.

1611 marginal noteHeb. make naked.

And I will giue thee the treasures of darkenesse, & hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know, that I the LORD which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.

I haue not spoken in secret, in a darke place of the earth: I said not vnto the seed of Iacob, Seeke ye mee in vaine: I the LORD speake righteousnesse, I declare things that are right.

1611 marginal noteDeut. 30.11.

¶ Come ye neere vnto me; heare ye this; I haue not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I; and now the LORD God and his Spirit hath sent me.

Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the soules of the poore innocents: I haue not found it by secret search, but vpon all these.

1611 marginal noteHeb. digging.

But if ye will not heare it, my soule shall weepe in secret places for your pride, and mine eye shall weepe sore, and run downe with teares, because the LORDs flocke is caried away captiue.

1611 marginal noteLamen.1. 2.16. and 2.18.

Can any hide himselfe in secret places that I shall not see him, saith the LORD? doe not I fill heauen and earth, sayth the LORD?

1611 marginal notePsal. 139.7. &c. amos 9.2, 3.