5. Look Earnestly with a longing look at unseen Eternal things. Let your Hearts be filled with greatest intense desires after them, as one that looks and thinks it long, till the desire be accomplished: as the Mother of Sisera looked out at a Window, and cried through the Lattice, Why is his Chariot so long in coming? Why tarry the Wheels of his Chariot? Judg. 5.20. Why doth time make no more haste to be gone and flee away, that when it is gone and past, I might enter into Eternal Joys, that never shall be past and gone? Why doth the Sun that by its alternate presence and absence, is the measure of my nights and days, make no swifter speed in its diurnal Motion? If it be as a Bride groom coming out of his Chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race, why doth it seem to my longing Soul, ⟨p. 44⟩(as in the days of Joshua) to stand still; if the Sun in the Firmament be so slow, let the Son of Righteousness make more haste, and come and lighten my passage to the other Eternal World, that I might see him as he is, and be more like unto him, than at this distance I can be? Return, Return, O Shulamite, return, return, that I might look upon thee: Make hast my Beloved & be thou like unto a roe, or to a young heart upon the mountains of spices, that my looking for, and after thee might be turned into looking upon thee. Didst thou say a little while, and ye shall see me, & again, a little while, and ye shall not see me? Why dearest Lord! shall I count that a little while in which I do not see thee? hast thou lest it upon record, yet a little while, & be that shall come, will come, and will not tarry? Sweetest Saviour! to my thirsty, panting Soul it seems a great while, while thou dost tarry, and not come: time seems long till I do see thee, but when I shall see thee in looking on thy lovely glorious Self, Eternity shall not seem long. I will mind thee of thy Promise, surely I come quickly, and make in matter of my prayer, and in consider•• ⟨p. 45⟩of the performance of thy promise, and audience of my prayer, will say, Amen, even so, so quickly come Lord Jesus: for according to my earnest expectation, & my hope, I groan, and am travelling in pain, until I see thee who to me art now unseen, that when I might live by sight, & no longer walk by Faith.
5. Look Earnestly with a longing look at unseen Eternal things. Let your Hearts be filled with greatest intense desires after them, as one that looks and thinks it long, till the desire be accomplished: as the Mother of Sisera looked out at a Window, and cryed through the Lattice, Why is his Chariot so long in comming? Why tarry the Wheels of his Chariot? Judg. 5.20. Why doth time make no more haste to be gone and flee away, that when it is gone and past, I might enter into Eternal Joyes, that never shall be past and gone? Why doth the Sun that by its alternate presence and absence, is the measure of my nights and days, make no swifter speed in its diurnal Motion? If it be as a Bride groom coming out of his Chamber, and rejoyceth as a strong man to run a race, why doth it seem to my longing Soul, ⟨p. 44⟩(as in the days of Joshua) to stand still; if the Sun in the Firmament be so slow, let the Son of Righteousness make more haste, and come and lighten my passage to the other Eternal World, that I might see him as he is, and be more like unto him, than at this distance I can be? Return, Return, O Shulamite, return, return, that I might look upon thee: Make hast my Beloved & be thou like unto a roe, or to a young heart upon the mountains of spices, that my looking for, and after thee might be turned into looking upon thee. Didst thou say a little while, and ye shall see me, & again, a little while, and ye shall not see me? Why dearest Lord! shall I count that a little while in which I do not see thee? hast thou lest it upon record, yet a little while, & be that shall come, will come, and will not tarry? Sweetest Saviour! to my thirsty, panting Soulit seems a great while, while thou dost tarry, and not come: time seems long till I do see thee, but when I shall see thee in looking on thy lovely glorious Self, Eternity shall not seem long. I will mind thee of thy Promise, surely I come quickly, and make in matter of my prayer, and in consider•• ⟨p. 45⟩of the performance of thy promise, and audience of my prayer, will say, Amen, even so, so quickly come Lord Jesus: for according to my earnest expectation, & my hope, I groan, and am travelling in pain, until I see thee who to me art now unseen, that when I might live by sight, & no longer walk by Faith.
