c.1 Commentary upon the Gof el Chap.6. 1cireerjleth here, in the fame mcafure he is merry ; Iike as birds never ling Ir fweetly, as when they arc got in the air, or on the t p ,f trees. As when Chrilt with-draws his gracious pref:nce and inflit_nce hr is all amort, you may tak- him up for a dead man. He cries after Chrilt, as idolatrous Micahdid after his loft gods : And as King Edward the third having the King of France prifoner here in England, ra feafiiri ;' himooe time moft fumptu- oufly, prr1:dhim to bemerry, theFrench King anfwered, How can efmnJfoags in a firange land ? So the good foul is in great hea- vincic, while Chrilt abients hill-if-elf, and never heartily merry, till the get home tohim, till the lay hold on him, whomher foul loveth. Verfe 22. The light ofthe body ie the eye, 8cc.] Here our blefled Saviour illuftrateth what he had laid before, of laying up, not on earth, but in heaven, by a fit Gmil¡rude. Like as the eye is the light ofthe wholebody : fo is t he mindc of the whole man. If therefore thine eye 6e¡ingle, that is, it thy mimic be fincere : If thou have that oneeye of theSpoufe in the Canticles, that one heart pro- Ended in the new Covenant, fet upon God alone, and not divi- ded, and as it werecloven ofin t. ( which is to have a heart and aheart) but minding the one thing neceffary, as the main; and be not double- minded, or corruptedfrom thefimplicityof Chrifl; then Jhell thy whole body, that is, thy whole, both conflitution and con. verfattonbelightfom, diaphanous, tranfparent, as a lant horn that hath a candle in it, or as a cryftall glaire with a light in the which appeareth through every part thereof. There will be an uniformity, mquability, ubiquity and conftancy of holineffc run- ning thorow thy whole courte, as the warp doth thorow the woof ; when a double- minded man ( that bath not cleanfed his heart, nor wafht his hands ofworldly tufts) is »n:t'lahle and une- ven in all hit waies. Thou Jhalt love the Lord thy God with all thy minde, Ltìk.:o.17. Andwitlt my minds I ferve the Law of God, faith Pod, which he acknowledged to be fpirituall, though he were carnali in part, fold under fin. The old man ie flill corrupt according to thedeceitfull luTh ( which f-noetimes fo betnift and beguile the judgement, thata man (hall think there is kale fenfe infinning, and that he bath reafon to be mad) but be ye renewed in the ifiirit ofyonr minder, in the bofom andbottom ofthe foul, in the tnoft inward and fubtile parts of the foul,.and as it were the quintsfccncc..of. it. Referee theft upper. rooms for Chrilt, suit
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