Chap. 3 r. .rin Lexpoftion upon the Took of J o B. Verf. 7. 367 tbereef &c. Yet wee are not to thinks; that the fight of the eye in a flareof innocency could have infected the womans heart, had not fome poyfongot intoher heart before ,' had'not theSere pent inftilled a vicious delire intoher minds, had he not wrought fume inordinate affe&ion or afeftaticn rather in the woman to mend her effete, the fight of the tree had never overcerne her. But we read how before that fight ofthe tree overcame her, five minced the matter, and abated the ltric`tries of that Divine Law which forbad the eating of the tree; with a peremptory penalty, In the day that thou cateft thereof in dying tkou(halt dy,ortkou( hale furelydie,this (1 fay) the abated withat Jeff an implicit peradven- eure,whila The Paid to theSerpent(Gen.3.3.)God loath laid, e fhall not ente of it leftye die. Thus the Devil! firff enfnared the womans heart,elleher heart had not followed her eye, nor given her leave to Waite that tree. So then fig is originally in the heart, bait cccafionally from the eye; ifthere were no fin in the- heart, there would be nohurt taken at the eye; but the heart being fin - full, every vaine fight ofthe eye endangers it to fin, by . awak- ning thole lulls which liedole, and are as it were (till fuch occa- fions are offered ) dormant there. Secondly When 74 faith bit heart did not walfte after his eye ;.bee fheweth what the naturali courfe or walke of the heart is, even after theeye; that is, after vanity. Hence obferve. The naturall mans heart walketh after hie eyes, or be if led by fence. As the fcrvant thould foilo;v the Malice, nor the Mailer the re ham r.ae per fervane, fo the heart fhould not follow the eye, but the eye the ,,ereeelao,ra- heart. Corruption bath inverted this order ; And therefore no fk9d, °"-° fooner doth a corrupt eye fee any thing that is vaine, but the leg ve1 tf fa "m;9eea k7 de...r heart is flirted up to luft after it, There are many things in the sit, gk3a world worthy to be feene,as-the beauty and fyrnetry of the body to, /ejklrRr, ofman, The luftreofprecious (tones, the order And ornaments fi` n oft in it;a ofthe heavens, yet the heart fhould not walke after any ofthem, a "'mk °'- nor be taken fowith them, as to be taken off fromGod a mo -. s yeµe "0e f`ct runt. All our fences fhould be kept holy,eleane,and Godward. coc. Ófl£ As Toone as we look upon any creature, the glory ofGod fhould appeare to us in it, and we íhould be led by it tOhonour him, and be
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