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…

Secondly, This winking with the eye, is expounded by others, though not as an opposition against what he heard, yet as the gesture of a negligent and careless hearer. They who speak, take it ill to have either ill looks, or not to be looked upon by their hearers. The attentiveness of the ear may be much discerned by the eye: One of the old moral Philosophers, in his discourse about hearing, numbers winking among the vices and offensive behaviours of a Hearer. When the Lord Christ Preached (Luke 4.20.) It is said, That the eyes of all that were in the Synagogue were fastened on him. A fastened eye is the note of a fixed heart, as a wandering eye is of a wandering heart. They fastened their eyes upon him, as if they meant to hear with their eyes as well as with their ears. A winking eye is a moveable and an unsettled eye, and therefore may well be the discoverer of an unsettled Spirit.

Secondly, This winking with the eye, is expounded by others, though not as an opposition against what he heard, yet as the gesture of a negligent and carelesse hearer. They who speak, take it ill to have either ill lookes, or not to be looked upon by their hearers. The attentivenesse of the eare may be much discerned by the eye: One of the old morall Philosophers, in his discourse about hearing, numbers winking among the vices and offensive behaviours of a Hearer. When the Lord Christ Preached (Luke 4.20.) It is sayd, That the eyes of all that were in the Synagogue were fastned on him. A fastned eye is the note of a fixed heart, as a wandring eye is of a wandring heart. They fastned their eyes upon him, as if they meant to hear with their eyes as well as with their eares. A winking eye is a moveable and an unsetled eye, and therefore may well be the discoverer of an unsetled Spirit.

Thirdly, This winking with the eye is also a sign of disdain and scorn. As if Eliphaz had said, The pride of thy heart sparkles at thine eye; while we are counselling and comforting thee, thou art scorning us. The Ancients were very critical about the eye, much of a man may be seen at his eye. As a man sees, so he is seen by his own eyes. The frame of the heart appears much in the eye; a joyful or a sorrowful frame of heart, an humble or a proud frame of heart, a contented, or discontented, an amicable, or a scornful frame of heart appears at the eye. As the ear and nostrils of the Horse, discover him most, according to the rules of Naturalists, so the eye of man is the greatest discoverer of man, whether we consider the constitution or the actions of it. And that this action of winking, is an argument of a scornful