The spiritual-mans aim guiding a Christian in his affections and actions, through the sundry…The spirituall-mans aime guiding a Christian in his affections and actions, through the sundry…

First,¹ they do not consider and look upon things as past: they look not with the eye of Faith upon things, these things will pass: but they look upon things in passing, and they see no alteration for the present: they should consider, I, but what sentence is upon them? These are as good as past, they will be gone ere long, ⟨p. 73⟩look upon things in the world, see all things are passed. We are dead, our friends are dead, and the world is gone. Faith saith this, we consider not this Eye, and so we are carried away with them: we look upon things passing, and there we see little alteration. A man that looks upon the shadow passing, he cannot see it: but if he come two or three hours after, he shall see it past. Let us look upon things as gone, though they be not for the present gone, see them in the Eye of Faith, and that will make us consider them as passing away.

First,¹ they doe not consider and looke upon things as past: they looke not with the eye of Faith upon things, these things will passe: but they looke upon things in passing, and they see no alteration for the present: they should consider, I, but what sentence is upon them? These are as good as past, they will bee gone ere long, ⟨p. 73⟩looke upon things in the world, see all things are passed. We are dead, our friends are dead, and the world is gone. Faith saith this, wee consider not this Eye, and so we are carried away with them: wee looke upon things passing, and there wee see little alteration. A man that lookes upon the shadow passing, hee cannot see it: but if hee come two or three houres after, hee shall see it past. Let us looke upon things as gone, though they bee not for the present gone, see them in the Eye of Faith, and that will make us consider them as passing away.

1. 11. They look not upon them as past.1. They looke not upon them as past.