Chap. S .Secr.9 . Looking umo 1efm, Booic IV· defcribed) in our view,and let us look upon it with both eyes,with the eye of reafon, and wtth the eye offaith. But how ihould we keep the eye of our faith on this bleffeq obj~cr, until! we feel this conformity in us ?• I an- - fwer,--- . I. Let us let apart fome times on purpole to act our faith in this refpect; there is a time font!! thi;;gs under the fun, faith Solomon. It may be fometimes we are in our civil emplo, ments, Ecclef. ; . r. but then is not the time ; yet when they are done, and the day begin.s to clofe, if to~etber with our cl?fet prayer we would fall on thts duty of looking unto f-ef;u by hvely fatth, how hl~ffed a feafon might this be? I know not but that fome Chrifiians may do it occaiionally, but for any that fets fome time apart for it every day, and chat in confcience, as we do for prayer,where is he to be found ? 2. Let us remove hinderances; Sathan labours to.hinder the foul from beholding Chrifr with the duft of the world, the god of .this wor!J blinds the eyes ofmen; 0 take heed of fixing .our eyes on this worlds varrity ! our own corruptions are alfo great hinderances to this view ofCbrift; away, away with all carnal paffions, bale humours, Gnful.defires ; unleffe the foul be fpiritual, it can never behold fpiritual things. 3· Let us fixe our eyes only on this bleffed object; a moving, rolling eye fees nothing clearly ; whtrt th~ <!Angels arc [t~id to P look_into thefc things, the Word fignlfies, that they look into them 1 er. 1 ' 1 '· narrowly, as they who bowing or ll:ooping down do look into a thing ; fo ihould we look narrowly into the life of Chrill: ; our eye of faith fhould be fee upon it in a fteady manner, as if. all the ~orl-d could not move us, as if. we forgot all the thmgs behmd, and had no other bufinelfe in the world but this. 4· Let us look wiihingly and cravingly ; there is affection, a's well as vifion in the eye; as the lame man_tnat lay in Solomons porch looked wiihly on Peter and 'f·ohn, expeEling to receive fame At!. 3 , f thi~eg of them,Io kt us look on Chril.l: with a craving e_ye, with an ' humble expectation to receive a fupply of grace from Chrift, why Lord thoturt not only anoynted with the oyle of glt~dneJTe above thy fellows, but for thy fe/lo}ys; I am e.mhiJ minded, but thou t;lrt hr.,venl;; I am full o( luffs, but the image of God is perfeEl in thee; thorl
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