436 Chap. 39. .än Expofition upon the Bookof J o a., Verf. 29, her quickfightednecs, is this in nature, becaufe her eye lieth very deep in her head., and fo hach a great advantage in feei ng, the light being the more compaffed by,and the rayes the more flronb ly gathered into her eye. I (hall not difcufs the validity of this reafon, all agreeing in the thing, that the Eagle fees very exaóly and afar off: Andras the hath avery-clear, fo a very flrong light,fo thong that the can fleadily behold the Sun (pining in its flrength ( as it was ccucht before ) thofe beams which blind us, and op- preis our eyes, are pleating to hers. It hath been a torture which fptne Tyrants have tired, to hold open a mans eye direly to the Sun-beams, and Co blind him, and quite extingui(h the fight of his eye. Now that which blinds us, and puts out our eyes is plea- fanr, delightful, and as tome exprefs it, healing and refrefhing to the eyes of the Eagle and hence 'cis laid of her, that the tries her young ones, whether they be of-a right breed or no, in this phæGes du. manner; the holds them up to the Sun, and if they can bear the bias explore beams of the Sun with open eyes, they are right, otherwife fpu- tmnpdefares. rious. The Eagle is fo (harp-fighted, that, An Eagles eye is the Silius ital, proverb for a ¡harp fight. Her eyes behold afar off, Not in the fenfe we "find the phrafe ufed (mfal. 138. 6. ) where it is faid, Though the Lord behigh, pt loath he re f etl unto the lowly, but the proud he k oweth afar off; that is, he regards them not. We put a word of that significancy in the Meeter, lie contemning, knows themafar off, that is, as perlons that he cannot abide to have near him. The proud and lowly are alike near in place to God, yet not in refped}. But of that only by the way. The Eagles beholding chinos afar off, is not (I fay ) like the Lords beholding perlons afar off; thofe things which are afar off, in place from the Eagle, file fees them as if they wereat hand: Thus [he be- bolded] afar off. Hence, Observe; God bath givenmore excellent - jen[es to fume fenfitive crea- tures than to others ofthat kind, "yea, than to thofe of a higher kind, the rational. Not only doch the Eagle exceed other fowls of the air bur all themen on earth in eye-fight. And as an Eagle bath a natural eye -fight beyond man ; foa godly man bath a fpiritual eye-fight beyond all other men, the eye -fight of faith, by which he fees not only things afar off, but things invifible, yea, him that is in- vifible,
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