z6 Chap,4z. Expofaion upon the Book,of) o s. Vert bands what they have heard. The Lord chargedEz,ekieI(Chap. 44. ç.) Son of man, markwell andbehold with thine eyes, and bear with thine ears, all that 1 fay unto thee,; that is, mind diligently what I Phew and fay unto thee. TheLotd called for the exercife of both fenfes, inattending to what he fpake tothe Prophet: He did not only fay, Hear with thine ears, but fee with thins eyes that is, hear as if thou didd even fee that which thou heareft.For though pollibly the Lord prefented fomewhat to the eyeof the Prophet, as well as he fpake to his ear, yet the former notion may well be taken in, yea, and intended in that command. Many hear as if they had noears, and fee as if they had no eyes. One of the Ancients takingnotice of that, faith, Such kind ofhearers are like cfrlalchus in the Gofpel, who had his ear cut off. From thole words, But now mine eyefeeds thee, taken dißintly, Obferve, Thirdly ; God revealeth himfelf more clearly andfullyat one time, than at another. Seeingis fomewhat more than hearing , though it be atten- tive hearing. As the full and clear manifeftation which we (hail have of God in the next life, is expreffed by feeing, and called vifion ; fo the fulleft and cleared apprehenfion which we have of God, and the things of God in this life, is a degree of feeing both him and them cis the fight of faith, and may alto be called vifon. A true and , drong believer tads, and feels, and fees the truths of the Gofpel which he hath heard ; his faith (which is the eyeof his foul) is the evidence of thofe things to him which are not ken, nor can be Peen by an eye of fcnfe : He by the helpof the Holy Ghod looks dedfadly intoheaven, and (with this eye) fBeth the glory of God, and fetus fianding at the right handof God (inhis meafure) as bleffed Stephen did (.AEts 7. çç.) This tight of God and fpirituals, hath three things in it beyond that ordinary, though real knowledge, which comes in by the hearing of the ear. Fitd, a furpaffingclearnefs. Secondly, an undoubt- ed certainty. Thirdly, a ravifhing fweetnefs, and the overflow- ing; of confolation. Fourth,
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