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484 ST. LUKE.only with carnal eyes, namely, the Mediator and wayof our salvation, the victim of our reconciliation,author and finisher of our faith,alltheand the principle ofgrace, of all perfect love, and of every good thingin us. Take from me, O Lord, those eyes which,seeing, see not. Give me the eyes of the heart,which, in seeing, love, obey, and imitate thee, andare continually fixed upon thee, as the eyes of servantslook unto the hand of their masters." 24. For I tell you, that many prophets andkings have desired tosee those things which ye see,and have not seen them ; and to hear those thingswhich ye hear, and have not heard them."What have we done for God to deserve this preference?He prevented all our desires, by givinghimself to us (before ever we could so much as thinkof him) in giving us hisSon, of whom the prophets,kings, and patriarchs, saw nothing but the types andshadows. O beneficial gift to every one who makesuse of it to promote his own salvation, by takinghim for the rule of his life, imitating him as his pattern,having recourse to him by humble and perseveringprayer, and depending upon him in allthings ! But a very fatal gift to every one whomakes no use at all of it ! If it were a happinessto see Jesus Christ in the infirmity and humility ofhis flesh ; what a happiness must it be to see him inhis glory, to possess him in eternity,to live his life,to be transported with his joy, inebriated, as it were,with his pleasures, and blessed with his very felicity !