Chap. 40, An Expoftion upon theBookof J o a. Verf. g. 64 theyhave of Chrift by faith (t Pet. t . 8.) Whomhaving scot Peen, ye love ; in whom, thoughnowyoufee himnot, yet believing, ye re feyee withjoy unfpeakable,andfull ofglory, Wh00%having, not feen, that is, with bodily eyes and, in whom, though you feehim not, that is, fenfitively, yet believing ; What is believing ? it is the fight of the ¡out. Faith gives the foul a view of Chrift in all his excellency and glory, ie his love and in his lovelinefs, in his righteoufnefs-and holinefs: faithgets a view of Chrift in all his beauty ; and beholding him, we rejoyce with joy unfpeakable. If the fight of the bodily eye caufeth the foul to rejoyce, how muchmore the fight of the-eye of faith? the 'eye of either fixed upon defirable objeEts, affeEts the heart with.joy, Secondly, The fight of the eye fixt upon forrowful objPEts, af- fefts the heart with farrow (Lam.3. s t.) Nine eye affelb my heart, faid lamenting Yerem-ah; that is, feeing'the calamities that are upon mypeople, I cannot but weep and mourn. Chrift faith of the yet blinded and hardned Jews, They (hall look on sale whom they have pierced, and they (hall mourn (Zach. 12. to.) They fhallfhed tears of true repentance,when they!ball fee him with an eye of fence, joyned with an eye of faith, whofe blood they (bed. Some of them few him once with an eye of fence, without aneye of faith, and then they (bed hisblood ; 'hut when they (ball fee him with both,or only with-an eye of faith,they (hall mournfor (bedding it. When good Nehemiah heard in what a ruinous condition the City Jerufalem-was, he fate down,and evept, andrmaurnedcertain ¿ayes (Neh. t, 4.)his ear affeEted hisheart, howmuch morewould his eye, had he been a fpe6tator (as after- wards he was) of chore ruines 1 Thirdly, The fight of the eye affe6ts the heart with fear. Thereere fore fights verydreadful; fo faith the Text and Point, Shall not one becafl down at thefight of him ? This leads to a fe- coyd Note, which is this ; The Lordbath put a terriblanefi upon famecreatures, with re- f petb to man. Manis á terror tofone creatures; yet othersarea terror, or, very terrible to man. Let us confider, and ufefully remember this, for it is a fruit of fin. What is the real*bn.we are cart down at the fight of any creature ? we may thank our fins for it ; ail Trtt z our
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