Part I. AN ANT HR 0 p 0 pAT .H Y. 6t 2. The A<'l:ions of the locomotive Faculty, or which refpeCl: Motion, and local Situation. 3 . A<'l:ions procreating or generating, which PhyGcians call _vegetative, but we re– dtlce it to the Animal, tor J/egetatives are comprehended under tt. SEEING or Sight is attributed to God, by which, (as was faid before when we treat– ed of Eyes) his moO: exaCt Knowledge is intimated, Exod. xxxii. 9· I have feen this Peo– _ple, and behold it is a ftijf-ntcked People, that is, I very well know how wicked they are. I Sa11i. xvi. 7. A Matt* looketh Oil what is before his Eye, but the Lord fees to the Heart; that is, he hath an exaCt ProfpeCt into the very Thoughts of the Heart, and the whole inward Frame of the Mind, and accordingly judges. Pfal. xi. 4· '!'he Lord's Eyes behold, his Eye-lids try the Children of Men; it is a Gngular Paffage which we find, John v. I9- Where Chrift fays ofhimfelf, J/erify, verify, I fay unto you, '!'he Son can do nothi~tg of himfelf, but what he feeth the Father do ; for what Things foe·ver he doeth, theft alfo doeth the Son likewife. Here the Sight of ChriO: is equal with the Omnifcient Father's, and confequemly his Omnipotence is eqml, and his "'f'Y""'• Energy, or Power in Operation. Upon this and the following Verfe, Erafmus thus paraphrafes t " I " affirm it again, and again, that the Son, who wholly depends on the Father, can of " himfelf do nothing, forafmuch as he is not of himfelf, but what he fees the Father do the fame does he ; their Will and Power is the very fame, with the Father there " is Authority, and whatfoever the Son is or can do is derived from him. vVhatfoever therefore the Father hath done, the fame in the like Manner is wrought by the Son, " becaufe of the Equality of the communicated Power. AmangO: Men the Sons ofc tentimes degenerate from the Fathers, neither have they always the fame Will and Faculty, but the Matter is otherwife here, the Father loves the Son alone, and be– got him moO: like himfelf, and transferred an equal Power of Operation into him,. !hewing him all Things that are to be done by himfdf; he is fent forth as the great " Exemphr by him, in all other Matters the Operation of each is common, &c. 2. By the Sight of God, his Providence over his Creatures is to be underfiood, fame– times denoting his Approbation, Favor, Grace and good Will, as Gen. i. 4· And God Jaw that the Light was good, &c. So Verfes 10, I 2, 18, 2 t, 25. After which is annex– ed a general Sentence, Verfe 3 r. And God Jaw ..very 'l'hing that he had made, and behold it was very good. Which lignifies his Divine Approbation of his created Works, and his SanCtion of the Duration of Nature's Order to the End of the World. See Pfal. civ. 30, 3I, &c. Hence comes that Form of Speech, when God is faid to fee, denoting his Providence of certain Perfons or Things, under his immediate Care and Government, as Gen. xvi. I 3. 'J'hou God feejl me, that is, thou provideft for me. And Gen. xxii. 8. God will fee (that is, provide) himfelf a Lamb for a Burnt-offering. It is not to be un– derO:ood that Abraham knew before Hand, that he fhould find a Ram to offer for a Sacrifice to God inllead of Jfaac, but that he would quiet his Son by that Kind of An– fwer, he being felicitous and inquiGtive for the Lamb that lhould be offered for a Burnt– offering, therefore he intimates that !faac fhould leave it to the Care of Divine Provi– tltnce; and as Abraham fpoke, the Event happened, for he lifted up his Eyes, Verfe '3· and beheld the Sacrifice to be offered, and fo he gave the Place a Name, viz. Jehovah– jireh, that is, God fhall fee, Verfe I4, &c. So r Sa;n. xvi. 1. I have feen nze a King among his Sons, that is, as our Tranflation has it, I have provided and chofen me a King. More fpecially the To refpicere, or Seeing, or RefpeCt of God as it concerns Men, denotes his Approbation, Mercy, Care, and Help. Of which llfyricus in Clave. :j: There is in tbis a twofold Figure, viz. A;z Anthropopathy, in as much as Sight is afcribed to God, then a M!talepjis or fl,fetonymy, becaufe the external Motion of the E)'eS, the Elfe[t being put for the Caufe jignijies the inward Ajfe{lion of the Mind: For it takes in tbe ex– ternal Help which is the Confequent of the internal Ajje{lioJ•, and the external Motion of tbe • Homo 'l.Jidtt quttjimt prtr oadit, Dominus autem 'Videt ad Cor. t lllud etiam atqu~ etiam ajjirmo 'Vobis, jiliuJ qui tot tu a patrepe,ufet, nonpottjl quicqua·n exfifacerr, cum ex fi non.fit, t.Sc. Erat Paraphr. in loc. t Eft in his d;tp!icata Jigura, ncmpe tum Anthropopathia, ljllod Deo ajptbu tribuitur, !zan etiam Metall'pjis IIUI A1etonymia, quod exttrmu ocu!orum umus confiquens rjl, &c. R Eyes,
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