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Thus, good brethren, all the Scriptures throughout, the Patriarchs, the Prophets, showed long before unto us, the joy and felicity that should come upon the whole world, at such time as ⟨image 70⟩Christ should be borne. And therefore to confirm all this that they before had prophesied of him, Christ here said unto his disciples, Blessed are the eyes which see that ye see. Blessed are your eyes, said Christ, for your eyes have seen Gods promises performed: that promise which he made to Adam, saying, The seed of the woman shall break the head of the Serpent: Your eyes have seen that promise made unto Abraham, The seed wherein all nations shall be blessed: That promise also your eyes have seen performed, which God made unto David, saying: Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy seat: You have seen, and do now see that Emanuel, of whom Isaiah prophesied: You, I say, have seen that thing, whereunto all the Patriarchs, all the Prophets, & the whole body of the Scriptures do bear witness: You do see and behold him, whom Abraham would gladly have seen: You see him, whom Isaiah calleth the Prince of peace: him, in regard of whom the Prophet cried out, and said, O who shall live to see this great joy? You see him, at whose ⟨image 71⟩presence Saint John the Baptist being in his mothers womb, sprang, & leapt up for joy: him, at whose birth the very Angels in heaven sang, Gloria in excelsis: him, whom Simeon pronounced to be the Saviour of the world. All this, said Christ, you see, you my disciples, your eyes do see all this, and therefore blessed are your eyes, happy and blessed are the eyes that see which ye see. In the beginning, ¹saith S. Paul, God spake diversly, and by sundry means unto his people, sometimes by dreams, sometimes by revelation, sometimes by prophesies, sometimes by Angels, and sometimes by his own voice: but now in these days he hath sent amongst us his own son: by him, saith he, God hath declared his will unto us clearly and plainly, even by the mouth of his own son. When S. John the Baptist baptized Christ in the river of Jordan, it pleased God the Father to cry from heaven, and say, Hic est meus filius dilectus, ²ipsum audit, This is my beloved son, hear him, hearken unto his voice, give ear unto his doctrine: for he it is to whom both the law & the