SEEING—SIGHT.
Thou God seest me.—Genesis, xvi. 13.
He that planted the ear, shall He not hear? He that formed the eye, shall He not see.—Psalm xciv. 9.
The light of the body is the eye: if, therefore, thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore, the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!—Matthew, vi. 22, 23.
First the two eyes that have the seeing power,
Stand as one watchman, spy, or sentinel,
Being placed aloft within the head’s high tower;
And though both see, yet both but one thing tell.
These mirrors take into their little space
The forms of moon, and sun, and every star,
Of every body, and of every place,
Which with the wide world’s arms embraced are:
Yet their best objects, and their noblest use,
Hereafter, in another world, will be;
When God in them shall heavenly light infuse,
That face to face they may their Maker see,
Here are they guides, which do the body lead,
Which else would stumble in eternal night;
Here in this world they do most knowledge read,
And are the casements which admit most light.
Sir John Davies.
Though all the doors are sure, and all our servants
As sure bound with their sleeps; yet there is One
That wakes above, whose eye no sleep can bind;
He sees through doors, and darkness, and our thoughts;
And, therefore, as we should avoid with fear,
To think ourselves amiss before His search;
So should we be as curious to shun
All cause that others think not ill of us.
George Chapman.
God nought foresees, but sees: for to His eyes
Nought is to come, or past: nor are you vile
Because that Heaven foresees, for God, not we,
Sees as things are; things are not as we see.
John Marston.