Two sermons preached at Northampton at two several assizes there The one in the…Two sermons preached at Northampton at two severall assises there The one in the…

Secondly, Consider the difference of the Kings eye, I mean in respect of anger, and amiableness, cast upon a desperate Traitor and his nearest Favourite; proportionably, but with infinite more loathing or liking, the aspect of GODs pure eye is diversified, looking upon an enemy to the power of Godliness and profession of the Saints, and that happy one who hath made his peace with him, and is clothed with the righteousness of his Son: that glorious eye of his, which is ten thousand times brighter then the Sun, and cannot look on iniquity, doth cast down a direct perpendicular ray, as it were, upon every wicked man, without any diversion or retraction (that I may so speak) of its fierce edge, and fiery pointedness; and therefore sees him in his colours, a very vile, sinful, cursed, loathsome beast, (though he seem to himself, and the great of the world, a brave and jolly fellow) abhorred of GOD and man, heaven and earth, and by consequent as an object of infinite indignation and hatred. ⟨p. 50⟩But he ever looks upon his own Child, through the meritorious sufferings and satisfactions of the Son of his love, in whom all his discontents against him are done away and drowned for ever; and so beholds him such, and so lovely, as the blood and righteousness of JESUS CHRIST hath made him. Even as to a man looking through a red glass, all the world appears red and orient in his eye. So to the eye of GOD the Father, looking from his throne of mercy upon a godly man, through the bleeding wounds of his blessed Saviour, he is rendered, and represented right fair, and ruddy, deeply impressioned with an heavenly dye of acceptation and grace. Now tell me, whether a people be liker to prosper under him, upon whom the mighty LORD of heaven looks amiably, or angrily?

Secondly, Consider the difference of the Kings eye, I meane in respect of anger, and amiablenesse, cast upon a desperate Traitour and his nearest Favourite; proportionably, but with infinit more loathing or liking, the aspect of GODs pure eye is diuersified, looking upon an enemy to the power of Godlinesse and profession of the Saints, and that happy one who hath made his peace with him, and is cloathed with the righteousnesse of his Sonne: that glorious eye of his, which is ten thousand times brighter then the Sunne, and cannot looke on iniquity, doth cast downe a direct perpendicular raye, as it were, upon every wicked man, without any diversion or retraction (that I may so speak) of its fierce edge, and fiery pointednesse; and therefore sees him in his colours, a very vile, sinnefull, cursed, loathsome beast, (though he seem to himself, and the great of the world, a brave and jolly fellow) abhorred of GOD and man, heaven and earth, and by consequent as an object of infinite indignation and hatred.