118 If Sermon preached --- . I IN Thofe dayes, ii>l>en, &c. What dayes were thofe: were they goodoi $.>~the ~f{;/J: e1Jill dayes ! And this whole Verfe, is fet downebyway oflikin·g or JICst qu'.J':IHe, h c fl: Id h' k h ' t!h. complaiNt. At t enr one wou t 1n e, t at it Were a merry world if every one might doe what he liHed; thatthete were no bar~e in th~ ~orld : they be fairc wo~ds all. IJ.?....ight, anddoing right, and ~he eye, the fa1rel1 member; not an evil! word amongfl: them. · ,Bm yet fure, rhofe dayes were evill. This a complaint. .QJJafi ingeJ mi{citfup'!r b.ec Scriptur~, the Scriptu~e doth (as it were)fetch adeepe figb; fo oft as !t repeateth rh1s V~rfe, and fa1th thus 1n effeCl:: Tantamala conciliat non habere (](egem,fomuch mifchiefe commeth there in lfrael,orany where . whererhere is no King (faith Theodoret.) . . ·. i To let you fee then,what a monller lurketh under thefefmooth terms' (J_Nodt~""' qoing tbat ii>hiclJ i; rigbt in our eyes. Two parts there be, 1 theEye, 2 and ~h'eu,;._; the Hand. To begin with the eyej and that which is right in the. eye. · There began all evillvin the firfl: tentation : even from this perfwalion, they fhould need ·Ji'o?direction from Go o, or from aoy; their owne eye fllould be their director to what wasright, they lhould doe butwhat \vas rigl>t in tbeir oiPne eyes. Three evils Three evils are in ir. It is not fafe, to conimit thejudgement ofwhat inir. is rioht to theeye: an_p yer (lknow) it is our fureA:fe_nje,as thatwh_ ichap~ t0!!3din o fdtr B k h IJ ocutiJ. prehendeth grc:atefl: variety o irrerences. · · 'ut I nowWit a , the Oi · tikes (the Mafl:ers of that faculty) reckon up twenty feverall wayes, all which it may be, and is deceived. TheObjeltfull:of dec~ipt:ahings arc not as they feeme; The Medium is not evenly lli(pqfeJ. ~ Th~' Orgdn it felfe hath ·his fuffufioiJ's, Take but one:' tftat"ofthe lfare irtthewat~r~ Though theOare bellraight, yet ifthe eye be judge ,it feemethbowed.And,! if•that which is right, may feeme crooked;'th':it .which is tro~d, may feeme right: So 1 the eye, no competent jutlge. the !J?.!1le is the judge~~ rigbt ; Ifit touch the IJ?.Jile, and runne even with it, it is right, if it var~e from the!J\.tlle,letitfeeme to the eye as it will, it is awry ... GoD faw,th1s Denr.u.x8. was not good: an expreffe COQntermand we have from Him in ~euter?!Jemie; You fhal/ not doe e1>ery man, that "il>hicb is right in hi!eyes: that 1s, you i'hall have a furer rf\.ule ofrigl1t 1 thanyour ejes. . ,_ O!!Jdq•ifBut admit, weewill make the eye jttdge, yet (l hope) not -~ifipu; rJ.IIe. not E1!ery mans eye 1 that Were too much. Many Tveak.e and d1mme eyes there be; rnany goggle,and mif-{et, many little better thanblind: iha!l a11, and every of chefe be allowed, to define wh~t is rig~~~ Some, lt - -·- . - - · - - - ~aY.
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