An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…

There are soft looks as well as soft words, and there are hard looks as well as hard words: The eye is a Spear and an Arrow, yea a sharp Sword as well as the tongue; He sharpneth his eyes upon me, as if he would stab me to the heart with a glance of his eye. The eye hath its scintillations, its sparklings, even as bright burnished Brass, or as a burning Lamp, or as the morning Sun sends forth his rays and beams; such scintillations doth the eye of some men send forth naturally. The Roman Historians report of Augustus Caesar, and our Turkish Historian reports of Tamerlane, that such a majestic lustre sparkled from their eyes, as dazzled the eyes of their beholders, which (saith my Author) caused the latter in a comely ⟨p. 267⟩modesty to abstain from looking earnestly upon such as spake with him. What the eyes of these great Princes did naturally, the eyes of many do when they look passionately. Christ hath a sharp eye, so sharp, that his eyes (as represented to John in a Vision) were like a flame of fire (Revel. 1.14.) The eyes of God are so sharp naturally, or according to the excellency of his nature, that no eye can behold his face; and himself beholdeth not only every face, but pierceth into every heart; yet besides this natural sharpness of his eye towards all, he angerly sharpens his eye against his Enemies; God was indeed Jobs Friend, and Job was Gods Favourite, yet here he speaks of God (as he had also done before) as of his Enemy; and as of an Enemy, declaring himself at his eye, Mine enemy sharpeneth his eye upon me.

There are soft looks as well as soft words, and there are hard looks as well as hard words: The eye is a Speare and an Arrow, yea a sharp Sword as well as the tongue; He sharpneth his eyes upon me, as if he would stab me to the heart with a glanse of his eye. The eye hath its scintillations, its sparklings, even as bright burnisht Brasse, or as a burning Lampe, or as the morning Sun sends forth his rayes and beames; such scintillations doth the eye of some men send forth naturally. The Romane Historians report of Augustus Caesar, and our Turkish Historian reports of Tamerlane, that such a majestick lustre sparkled from their eyes, as dazled the eyes of their beholders, which (saith my Author) caused the latter in a comely ⟨p. 267⟩