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An exposition with practical observations upon the three first chapters of the book of…
An exposition with practical observations upon the three first chapters of the book of Job delivered in XXI lectures at Magnus near the bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...An exposition with practical observations upon the three first chapters of the book of Iob delivered in XXI lectures at Magnus neare the bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by G. Miller for Henry Overton, 1643
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That the sight of the eye wounds the heart. He doth not say, and hid trouble from my soul, or trouble from my spirit, but hid sorrow from mine eyes. It is a proverbial speech among us, What the eye sees not, the heart grieves not. And when the Lord would show how he was moved with the sufferings and knew the sorrows of his people in Egypt, he doubles it upon this sense, I have seen, I have seen, or I have surely seen the affliction of my people, Exod. 3.7. Your sorrows are not hid from mine eyes. Mine eye affects my heart, saith the Prophet Jeremiah, Lam. 3.51. That is, mine eye afflicts my heart. While Jeremiah went about the City, and saw so many woeful spectacles in the ruin and captivity of his people, that sight smote him to the heart. It is said, that when Christ came to Jerusalem and beheld the City, he wept over it, Luk. 19.41. And for the sorrow of repentance, the sight of the eye hath a great influence upon the heart, They shall look on me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn, &c. Zach. 12.10. ⟨p. 394⟩As the eye doth affect, or rather infect the heart with sin, from sin-occasioning objects; a sin that is in the eye will be presently at the heart, which caused Job to say, (Chap. 31.1.) I made a covenant with mine eyes, why then should I think upon a maid? He meaneth, sinfully to lust after her; as if he had said, there is a quick, a speedy passage from the eye to the heart, though in the fabric of the body there seems a great distance between them: Therefore I have made a covenant with my eyes to avoid occasions of sin, least mine eyes should pollute my heart with motions unto sin. And as it is in pleasure-provoking objects, that which is a pleasure to the eye, will presently be a pleasure to the heart, a refreshing to our spirits: And that pleasure which shall last for evermore in Heaven, is from a vision that shall last for ever. Joy shall for ever be before the eye, and therefore joy shall for ever fill the heart. The joy of Heaven consists in vision, in seeing God as he is, (1 Joh. 3.2.) or in seeing face to face, (