176 / 808
16q.
Dof7.i.
I.
2.
3.
4.
Ephefaans,Chap.r.
V
ER.18.
tance, defcribed from the glory, yea, the
riches
or
abundance
of
glo-
ry adjoyned unto it,and from
the
perfons
who
are
the
fubicót
of
it,the
Saints.
The
fumme
of
the verfe.When I
aske
for you
a
fpirit
of
wifdome
and
revelation, my meaning
is,
I
aske
at
God that
he would
give
you the
eyes
of
your underftanding inlightned, that ye maybe
able
to
know
.
thofe good things which you have
in
hope, having been
called
of
God
to the obtaining
of
them, through the
minifery
of
the
Gofpell
;
even
to know what
is
the abundant
glory
of
that
his
inheritance, which
he
will
of
grace diftribute
among{ the
Saints
:
for the
particle
we
reade
(in)
the Saints,
dothliignifieinoramong(i,
and
is fo
read,s.4th
26.x8.
Obferve then
Eft,
that thofe whole
fpirituall fight
is
reftored,
have
need
Rill
ro depend
on
God, that
their
eyes may be more and
more
in-
lightned
by
him
:
Thefe were
now light
in
the
Lord,had their
eyes
ope-
ned, yet thus he prayeth for them
:
As
it
is
with bodily
fickneffes,when
we recover out
of
them, health
corn
meth not
allat
once,but by
ounces,
as
we
fay;
fo
in
fpirituall:
When
God
doth
now
raife
us
up
from
our
death,we neither
arefully
fandified, nor yet
fully
inlightned ;
It
is
with
us
as
with the blinde
man,Marke 8.2 4.we
fee,but
confufedly
and
indi-
fin
tly.Now
this inlightning
comprehendeth thefe
foute things,which
we havé
fill
need
to
leek
to God for.
Firft, the removall of thofe things which put impediment
to
our
fight ;
a
feeing eye
may have
miffs
dazeling ir,humours falling and
di-
(tilling into it,
yea,
force
filme
or
skinne
growing over
it:
So an
eye
of
the foule,which now feeth,may have mitts
of
ignorance,clouds of
lulls,
veyles
of
hardneffe
of
heart,
all
hindring
this faculty
of
feeing,
in the
ai
tion
of
it
:
We
mutt therefore look to
God
for
the
eye
-
falve,
and the
help
of
his
hand
in
thefe regards.
Secondly ;
We
have neede
that
the inward light
of
knowledge
be
augmented
in
us.
The
inward light
of the
bodily eye,
is
not
fogreat
in
an
infant,
as it
is
now
in a
man
growne
;
fo
it
is,
that the
inward
light
of
the mind,by
an
addition
of
wifdome
and
knowledge, taketh
in-
creafe.
The
third thing
we have
fill
need
of,
is
that God
fhould thine unto
us
with
a
light!
of
revelation
in
his
word: for
as
the bodily
eye
can-
not be inlightned to
fee,
till
it
hath outward light afforded;
fo
it
is
with
the foule,and the
eye
thereof.But
of
this before
is
fpoken.
The
fourth thing,
is
a
diredìion and application
of
the
eye
ofour
mind,
to behold things
that
are fpirituall..
If
the
naturali
man and
all
his faculties
move
in
God,
much more
the
fpirituall.
Prov.2o.
r
2. God
is
faid
to
make
the
eye feeing, and
the
care
hearing,
that
is,
not onely
to
create
them, butgovern
and apply
them to that they doe
;
otherwife
we
might be
like
to
Hagar,
not
feeing
that which
was
before
our eyes. E
ven
as it is
not the
eye fo much
that
feeth,
as
the
foule
in
and
by the
eye,
whence
it
is,thar
if
the
mind
be abttratted
in
fomeferious thought,
men
fee
not
that which
is
before
them;So
it
is
not fo
much the eye
of
our
un-
derfanding,