An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…

Fifthly, Can the Eagle look fully upon the Sun? Surely helievers have not only as clear, but as strong a sight as the Eagle, they can look upon Jesus Christ the Son of righteousness with open face. For as this Son of righteousness hath said, behold me, behold me (Isa. 65.1.) and again, Look to me and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth (Isa. 45.22.) that is, all ye that dwell on earth, even to the ends of it; so he gives a power, or a spiritual eye to behold and look upon him; and that beholding or looking is a healing to them, as the beholding of the Sun is to the natural eye of the Eagle (Mal. 4.2.) To them that fear my name shall the Son of righteousness arise with healing in his wings.

Sixthly, Do Eagles suck blood both young and old? so do believers. The first living of the new creature is upon blood; every godly man drinks the blood of Jesus Christ by faith, as offered to him, both in the promises and in the Ordinances of the Gospel. A believer could not live a moment, nor have any subsistence in grace, if he had not (as the Eagle) blood to suck in and drink. A godly man is nourished, by a believing contemplation upon the sufferings of Christ, and the effusion of his blood.

Seventhly, Doth the Eagle feed upon the slain? so believers feed upon Christ as slain. Christ by his death is become our food ⟨p. 493⟩to eternal life, (Joh. 6.51, 53.) Though the raised and glorified body of Christ be entered into the full possession of a divine and eternal life, and though we by faith look to Jesus Christ, not according to the flesh, nor as dead, but as living and sitting for ever at the right hand of the Father, there making intercession for us; yet we must look to him as entering into the holy place by the sacrifice of himself, and with his own blood, not with the blood of others (