3 Chap.3il An Expofitiote upon the Book of J a. Verf.7, ter thine eyes, and fee what thou ;halt get by it in the day of Judgement. But it may he obje&ed, that uncleanneffe, covctoufneffe, and all fenfuall lulu, are first in the heart. Chrift is expreffe in the Gospel ( Marti. a 5. 19. ) Out of the heart proceed evil] thoughts, murders, adulteries,fornicatiens,thefts, fal /e witneffe, hiz/p emies. The heart is that uncleane fountaine out ofwhich chafe filthy fireames iffue continually. Were the heart pure, the eye would be fo too. The eye cannot fin alone, nor bath it any undue mo- tion, but as provoked by the heart, how then faith ?oh, that his heart didnot walke after hie eyes ?Whereas rather the heart doth miflead the eye, and the eye when it offends doth but walke after the heart. I anfwer, Both the eye and the heart, the outward and the in- wardman, the fences and the affe&ions have their (hare and aft their feverall parts in fin. To cleare this we muff remember, that fin ofany kinde may be conídered, firft, in its route and origi- nall ; fecondly, in its motions and occafions. Sin is originally in the heart, it dwells there,it is rooted there, as the Apostle fhiwes in the 7th chapter of his Epiftle to the Romans v.r 7th: but confi. der fin in its motions & occafions, confider what brings it forth, and drawes it out; then wemay fay, fin is in and from the eye, becaufe the eye allures the heart,and occafions it unto fin. What the eye fees,ftirres the heart to fin. The feed ofall fin is (Igrant) in the heart, but there it lycs and moves not ordinarily till the fight ofthe eye, or the hearing of the Bare, draweth it out. This obje& ftirres up wantonneffe, and that covetoufneffe, a third re- venge and wrathfullneffe: fo that though fin he originally in the heart, yet occasionally it is from the eye. Indeed if there were no corruption in the heart, the eyecould not m fl'cad it ; if the heart were not vaine,what the eye fees would not engageus after vanity. Chrift was tempted by the eye, the Devil cooke him up and (hewed him in one view all the glory of the world, but be- saute the Prince of this world found nothing in him, the fight of all this world could doe nothing upon him ; his heart did not at all walke after his eyes to fin, becaufe his heart was altogether cleane from fin. It is fayd (glen. 3.6.) When thewoman faw that the tree was good forfood, and that it was pleasant to the ayes, and a tree to be defired to malte one wife; ¡bet tookeof the fruit thereof,
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