452 Chap. ao. An Expofitiora upon the Boe)t, of j O B. Verf q; Ordii camel cuu srw calNefA jll¿t cones, The word wasmade flefh (Joh. a. r.4. ) not body or foul , bu Flefb, that is, man confifiing of foul and body. Thus here, (ye s fefh, that is, mans eyes; And fo the latter claufe ofthe verte is an expoition ofthe former. When hefaith, I-14 thou eyes of flop to It is more then this, Doff thoufee as man feet; ? 'et have an eye offlefb, is to judge according. to the flefh, and to fee as man feet;, is to fee no more then man<. When Samuel was lent to anoint a King overlfrael in the place .tif Saul (E Sam. 16.y.)the Lord laid concerning the firlt-born of Jefe, Look,,not onhis countenance, or on the height ofhisftature,bs- eaufe I havexefufedbins ; The rcafon added is this, For the Lord Teeth not as manfeet h,for man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart,There we have lob's dottrine of Gods 3eing delivered by God himfelf. Samuel thought he whomade the fairefi Phew to the eye ofman,muft needsbe the man who was fairer( in theeye Of God ; but the Lord feeth what is not feel-hand often . hndes moll reality in the leaft appearance; he who hathnot eyes of flefb fees beyond the fie. (b. There are feven differences between the eye offlefh or mans eye, and the eye ofGod. 1. Mans eye is but a means, or an inftrument of knowledge: Gods eye is his knowledge. The a& and the facultyare not di- fîihtEt in God. All in God is ad , Neither isGod another thing from his ad : whatfbevcr-is afcribed to him, is himfc lf. Theeye of God is Gods feeing. The knowledge of God is Gods knowing. The love ofGod is Gods loving. 2.Man mutt have a two-fold light to fee by;an inward light,the light of the ey- ,-nd an cut ward light,the light in the air: without both he cannot fee ; a man doth not fee (as Naturalifis fpeak)by fending forth a beam or a ray from his eye to the objet,}, but by receiveing or taking in a beam or ray from theobjcd into his eye; The objettiffues its fpecies to the eye, which being joyned with the vifïve power ofthe eye,tnan feeth : But God fecth inhimfeif, ofhimfelf, and from himfelf, he needs no outward light. Chritt is defcribed having a fiery eye, His ejes we are-asa flame Ore, (Revel. 1.14. Rev, z. 18.) Even nature teacheth us, that thofe creature -, which have fiery eyes fee in the dark, and fee bell when it isdarkeft, becaufe they fee by fending fortha beam or a flame from their eyes, which at once apprehends the objet', and enlightens thepaffage toit, God who commanded light to come out
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