Cbap.3.Setl. r. Loa king unto ':fefas. Book I. ~s wdl as a man , but the light and knowledge of the worth of it is by the internal light of the minde; fo the eye can fee a thing but not the ufe of it ; a childe loo.ks on a tool in the hand of a workman, but the fight and knowledge of the ufe ofit , ~ onely by a man of reafon that bath internal light to judge of it : and fo the eye can fee a thing but not the propriety ._ofit ; a beafi looks on his pal.l:ure, ·but he likes it not becaufe it is his, hut becaufe it is a pafiure and well furnitbed . Now we know that the worth, and ufe, and propriety ofa thing are the very creame of the things themfelves, and this the eye of the minde conveys, and not the eyes of the body. It is faid of fofeph that heJaw his brethren, and kfzew them, but Gen.4~.7 il! thq kziew not him ; this was the. reafon why [ofeph W:as fo ex:- ~eedingly taken at the .fight of h1s brethren, that his bowels wrought with joy, and a kinde of compaffion towards them; but they were before him·as common firangers ; thGugh they faw 'fofeph their brother a Prince, yet they were_taken no more with the fight of him then ofany other man, becaufe they knew hiln not. · Again thismental ~ooking is either notional and theoretical; or practical and expenmental ; the firfr we call barely the look.. of our mindrs; it is an enlightning of our underfiandings with fome meafure of fpeculative fight in fpiritual and heavenly myfieries: the fecond we call the look... of our minds and hearts, whereby we not on only fee fpiritual things, but we are *affected with him; we defire, love, believe, joy, andembracetbem. To* Sr~h oculllrum l ' r. · h 1 h d ,~ L.. • nomzrre omncs ·t liS. purpo1e IS t _at r~ c , t at wor s oJ '<.now/edge do fomettmes affcelzu 'llotari fignifie the afft~sons m the heart? and the effeHs thereof in our 11011 rarum eft, lives. And this was the look which Po~~ullongcd for, that 1 may Calv. in P. 2~ k,ziow him a~d the power ofhu refurreHion; ( i ) that he might 15 • Phil.po have expenence ofthat power, that it might fo communicate it felfe unto him, as to work upon him to all the endsofit. And this was the /, ok._that 'Bernard preferred above all looks In read- Itz_lcgendis 11- . ·~'b l. cr. . hh ) ,, fl. h l ~fi . ' br zs noll qu.er4tniT· oJ OO"'-f tatt e .et m not omuc oo or f'czence as f'avou- r. • · .<> • 1' • J' mus 1c1entram, rtnef{e ofmtth upon ot:r hearts. Thss I pray (faid the Apol.l:le) fed f'porem,Bet, that)Otir love may. ab?undyet more and mQre, in knowledge and in Phil. I• 9• at~ ptdg_ement i ( z.) 1~ knowledge and feeling. And certainly thts feelmg, th1s expmmtntllllooking on [efm is that my text D 2 aims . ' '
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