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Next, this corruption gets into the senses. It passeth through the eye, Jer. 9.21. Death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men in the streets. Mors per fenestras; it hath terrible effects: it invades the Palaces, the secret chambers of the heart: abscindit pueros, it cuts off the little masculine virtues of the soul: yea even the young men the graces that begin to get strength in us. Al this death comes in at the window, that is the eye. Cur aliquid vidi, cur noxia lumina feci? Mine eye hath betrayed my soul. Epiphanius gives an apt moral reason, why in the old law when a dead corps passed by any house, they were commanded to shut their doors and windows. When opus mortuum, a work of death, abhorred sin, is proposed; shut both the doors, your mouths; and the windows, your eyes. It is said that Judith's pantofles ravished Holofernes eyes, Jud. 16.9. Her sandals took him: what good men tread under their feet, that wicked men are seduced by. Therefore says Solomon, ^sLook not on the colour of the wine, when it moveth it self aright: be not tempted with the colour or dancing of it in the cup. Nimium ne creed colori. That sense is accessary to the sin; that opens the door, and lets the thief come in. Iniquity is the thief, the eye is the gate: therefore says Job; Pepigi foedus cum oculis. I have made a covenant with mine ⟨p. 83⟩eyes. Adultery is such an ugly monster, that it could never enter the city of the heart, unless it did first corrupt the watch. Advert oculos; ^tLord turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity. The ear is another passage; through that door Satan often sends in his errand. Vae mihi quia audivi; woe is me because I have heard, that which made me either angry or guilty. Keep him our, and be safe: stop thine ears to his charms, so shall he not touch thy heart. But he cries to the porter, let me but come in, I will desire no more: do but give him the hearing, it is sufficient to take thy soul.

Next, this corruption gets into the senses. It passeth through the eye,