554 Chap. 3 t. An : xpoftior, r:pen the Book; of jo B. Verf26. ( lt:x: 4o. 26. ) Lift upyour eyes on high ( there's a command or a dirc ion at leaft ) And behold: ( What (liauld they behold? Wh'at,the things or creatures, the Swine, Moone, and Starres, which are onHigh ? no : but as it folioweth in that place of the Prophet, beheld) who bath created thofe things, that bringeth oat their lofts by number he ca(leth them all by names, by the great. n° rre cf his might,for that he is flrong in power, not one /aileth. When the Prophet calls them to lift up their eyes on high , he would not have their fight terminated in any created thing on high, but in him, who hack created all high things. Behold them,, but doe not ftay in them ; Let not high things be the limit or bound of your fight, but glaffes in and by vkyl:ich you are helped to fee him who is The Molt High. Pore not upon the Sunne,. Moone, andStarres, but paffe thorough them untoGod , who bath created them, and bringeth out their hoff by number,, though to us a numberleffe haft. Secondly , As it is our dutie tobehold the Sonne and Moone;. even all things on high, tohonour and exalt God in our eyes, fo to humble and abafe our (elves inour eyes ; that is the ufe we find made ofthis fight (Ptah 8. 3, 4.) When Iconfider thehea- vent, the werkeof thy ßnger.r, the Moons and the Starres which thou haft ordained : What is man that thou art mindfull ofhim, er thefon ofman that thou viftteft him ? Asif he had fayd What is man , that God fhould make fuch creatures for him, that ho fhould let up aSonne and a Moone and Starres forhisn ? To be- hold the beautie ofthe creature that we nay abafe our (elves, is a worke ofGraceabout the things ofnature. Thus to behold the Sonne when it fhineth and the Moone walking inbrightneffe, is a, command; not the breaking ofa command, aduty not a fin. But how is it a fin tobehold them ? The word which is here a`ivend; vtr3it oled in the Hebrew imports two things betides bare feeing, ter aff;rtu which will helpe us towards an anfwer. Firft an affe&in de- Loco s afert ed. light in them ; Secondly, an admiring nay of the mind upon, am intentionem them: Such was that which the Angels gave tome reproofe to, gttandam etani. though it were upon Chrift hitnfelfe when he afcended into hea- mt et ocu:orum in rem CAIN a,i- ved (tlEtS I. lo, I I.) landas they lookedfledfafi<ly toward bea- doter ; Rae vex, as hewent up, behold two men (toodby them in white apparrel, . tale conveni- which alfofayd,ye men ofGalilee, whyftandyegazingup into bea- unt inadoratio- wen, &c. Such a pleating gazing fight of the Sun 74 here de-- t%. nits t:
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