• Ofthe P A s s I o N. I f. So have we now the whole Obje8; both1l!bat, and With "~~>hat minde: The _Aa, or And, what is now to be done ?Shall we not paufe awhile, and fiay and pum, lopke upon ·this T11eorie, yer we goe any further ? Yes, let us. Proper to this dtry is this fight of the [roffe. :rhe other (ofthe throne) may fiayte( ! "JA•It!•g fro..: :A?TJ. His time a day or two henGe. . . We ate injoyned to looke upon Him : How can we, feeing He is now higher than the HealJens, fa:rre out of our fight, or from the kenningof any mortal! eye ? Ye~, ~emay fot:ill that._ As (i~ ~he_27; of theChap. ter next before) Mofes IS fatd to have June Hem tbat u tnllijible : Not with the eyes of flejh ;fo, neitherhe did, or we can: But (as there it is) byfaith, So, he did; and we may. And, what is more kindly to behold the.Aiubor of(aitb,than faitMor more kindly forfaith tO bel>vld, than her .dMhor here atfirft; and her Finijher there at laft ?~im to behold firfl and laft; and ne. \'er to befatisfied with lookmg on Hm1, who was content to buyus.llld our eye at fo dearea rate. · · · .Oureye then is the eye of our minde, which is faitli :And dui" a(picie,,t 1 1 in this, and the recogitantes (in thenext Verfe) all One; Our looking to Rim here,is our tbinkin.gon Him there : On HimandHisPafl'ion over and over againe, Donee toteu fixus in cgi·de, qui totus fixuo in Cruce, till He be as faG fixedin our beart, as ever He was to HisCroJfe; :and fof!le imp'rtftionmade in us of Him, aS'lihere was inHim for us. , In this our looking then,twoails be rifing from the tWopr.epoflticnr: One 'before, ,.,, in--~·~~-"''' looking from :the other after, ~<looking upon,or into. There is ,.,., from, abftra8ing our ey! from other Obje8s, to looke hil ther lometime. The Prepojitio11 is not idle, nor the note, bur veryneed. full. For; naturally we put this (pe8acle farre from us, and endure note{. ther oft or long to behold it. Other things there be, pleafe our eyes better,ancl which we looke gn with greater delight. And we mufl:d~·F"'' looke off them, or wee £hall never ;p;;:,/ookeuponthisaright. Weemult(inl fort) worke force to our nature, and per aEtum felicitum (as theyterme it -inSc/,ooles) inhibite our eyes, and ever'll1eine them from other more plea• fing fpeEtacles that better like them, or we !halldoe no good here; never make a true theorie of it. I meane, though ourprofpe8 into the world bee good,and we have bothoccafio11 andinclination to looke thither oft; yeteveG and anon to have an eye this way; to looke from them to Him, who; when all thefe fhall come to an end, mull: be He that fhallfinijh and mz. fitmmate our faith and u.~, and make perfeCl: both. Yea, though theSaints be faire marks (as at fi.rft I faid) yet even to looke off from themhirher,and turne our eye toHim,from all; even fromSaints and all. But chiefly,from the baits of Simze; the concupi{cence of otlr eyes, the fhadowes and iliewes ofvanity round about,by which deat/, entrethatour "ll>indoz11es :whichurt· leffe wee can be got to looke from,t~ishl~~ ~i~docusnogood ; wecan~ notlookeonboth together. '• -- · . -- - -· ---- . . . -- ~~~
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