18 1}ohn 3·% sCor.t3.t:t· ~cor. 5·7• _ Book. I. Looking unto ::fefus. I have hitherto fiood only at the the door of the text to call you in ; ifnow you will enter, and be intent and fix your eyes, l'le fhew you a bleffed, a mofi glorious fight. - But firfi I mufi explain the act, you mufi look.:] Secondly, the objed:, you muft look_on 'fefm.J ~~~~~~~~E~~ CHAP. III. SECT. I. .An Expla'{ation D[ the a/1 and oljell. 1 .Or the ad:,you muft look:] Look]ng is either ocu~ • lar, or mental. Firll, for ocolar vifion , there may be fome ~ ufe of that in heaven, fort here we fhall/ook_on · 'fefm,with theft eyes fhalll behold him,iaith(ob, t~nd we jball foe him ai he is, faith the A poftle; now wefee him as in a glaf{e,but thrn we /hall fee hjmface to face. But till then we muff walk_hy faith, <tnd not by fight. Secondly , for mental vifion, or the inward eye, that is it that will take up our difcourfe, and that is it which 'the Apoftle , fpeaks of in his prayers for the Ephejians, that the eyes of their HnEp~er.td-xllti h derftandint may he opened, that the] may ~now, &c. *Now the " .Sir!IOII J', lf. t 11 f h' . 1 fi h . I:. '\.: h I fi h I:. and fait b. cxce ency o t 1s men.ta 1g_ t ts tar aoove t e ocu ar tg t; tOr, there are moreexcellent thmgs to l:e feen by the eye of the mind, then by the eye Of the body; we-only fee a peece of the creation by the eye of the body, but the minde reacheth every thing that is in it, yea the minde reacheth to him that made it; God is invifible , and yet this eye fees God i it is faid of Hch.it.~7 Mofes, that-he Jaw him that jsinvijib!e. 2. It is the figh t of the mindethat' g!ves light and vigourto the fight ofthe eye, take away th~ inward light, and the light of the external fenfe is but as darkneffe a~d death. 3 .It is the G.ght ofthe minde that looks into the worth, ufe, &c. proprie yofany thing prefented; the eye can fc:e a thing_, .but not the worth ofit ; a beaft looks on gold . a'
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