395 Chap.3 _. An Expofition :upon the Book, of J OB. Vert. i o. As theeye, dothaffe ,or rather infeét the heart with fin, from fin.. occafioningobjeEts; a tin that is in theeye will be prefently at the hears, which caufed Job to fay, (Cap. 3 r.a .) Imade a Govtnant with mine eyes,why thenfhould I thinkupon a maid ? He meaneth, finfally to lull after her ; as if he had fàid, there is a quick,a fpee- dy paffage from the eye tò the heart , though in the fabrick of . the bock: there feems a great diftance between them:. Therefore I have made a covenant with my eyes to avoyd occafions offin, left mine eyes fhould pollute my heart with motions unto fin. And as it is in pleafure -provoking objects, that which is a pleafure to the eye, will prefently be a pleafure to the heart , a refrething to our fpirits: And that pleafure_which (hall fait for evermore in Heaven,. is from a Vilion that (hail Taft for ever. Joy ¡hall for ever be -be- thre the eye, and thereforejoy (hall for ever fill the heart. The joy of Heaven confitts in Vilion , in feting God as he is (ajoh.3.2.) or in feeing face to face, (iCor. 13. a2.) which is the Vilion be- atifical. So likewife there is an at- Riding Vifion. The eyeaffects the heart with forrowoceafioning objeds;ifforrow be in the eye, it will not flay long from the heart. Hence when Sarah Abra- hams wife was dead , Abraham thus befpeaks thepeople among whom he dwelt, if it beyour mind that Ifhouldbury my dead out ofnay fight, c.,,Gen.2,.8.)lt did afflict the heart ofAbraarrs with finrow, to fee the body of his deceafd Wife, or the coffin . wherein the lay , whom he had fo entirely loved, therefore bury her out ofmy fight. It is very obfervable, that when f ofetdo would do fowcwhat purpofely to affliét and touch the heart of his Bre- thren with more remorfe for their former unkiudnefs unto him, the Hifiory faith,(Genef:42.24..) that he took from them Simeon, andbound himbefore their eyes He heard them in their private conference whifper one to another , We are verilyguilty concern- ing our Brother, in that wefew the angeeifh ofhis Soul, when be be- fought ass, andwe would not hear, therefore,is this digrefs come upon us. When Jofeph perceived their Confciences began thus to work, he refolves to give them apill at their eyes, (even a doleful fpeç`tacle,yet the lively pitture oftheir dealing with him) to make their Confciences work fatter, withgodly forrow : He tookfrom them Simeon, andbound him before their eyes. And Judah when he pleadeth afterward,Chap.44.for the carrying backofBenjamin, you know what a pathetical Oration he makes; O, faith he, .. do not detain Benjamin, fox when I tome: to thyfervant my Fa- ther,
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