A practical exposition of the Lord's-Prayer

Secondly; Let us consider the Terms how the Cure is wrought: Certainly to remedy so great an Evil, requireth an Omnipotent, an Almighty Power. Therefore see how Conversion is described in Scripture; sometimes by enlightening the Mind; Ephes. 1. 18. The Eyes of your Understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his Calling, &c. Man, the best Creature on this side Heaven, is stark blind in the things of God: If he should go to see with the Light of Nature, how would he grope at Noon-day? If he should put on the Spectacles of Art, he will be but little better. Nay, let him take further, the Glass of the Word, yet how blind in a spiritual sense. Something there must be done upon the Faculty; the Object must not only be revealed, but the Eye must be enlightened: There are thick Scales upon his Eye, as Paul had in his Blindness, that must be taken off, before he can see into the things of God.

Secondly; Let us consider the Terms how the Cure is wrought: Certainly to remedy so great an Evil, requireth an Omnipotent, an Almighty Power. Therefore see how Conversion is described in Scripture; sometimes by enlightning the Mind; Ephes. 1. 18. The Eyes of your Vnderstanding being enlightned; that ye may know what is the hope of his Calling, &c. Man, the best Creature on this side Heaven, is stark blind in the things of God: If he should go to see with the Light of Nature, how would he grope at Noon-day? If he should put on the Spectacles of Art, he will be but little better. Nay, let him take further, the Glass of the Word, yet how blind in a spiritual sence. Something there must be done upon the Faculty; the Object must not only be revealed, but the Eye must be enlightned: There are thick Scales upon his Eye, as Paul had in his Blindness, that must be taken off, before he can see into the things of God.

But is this all, enlightening the Eye? No, the Scripture describeth this Work of God by opening of the Heart; Acts 16. 14