A _Heart_, which bore the figure of an _Eye_ Wide open to the _Sunne_; by some, was us’d, When in an _Emblem_, they would signifie A _Minde_, which on Celestiall Matters mus’d: Implying, by the same, that there is nought Which in this lower _Orbe_, our Eyes can see, So fit an Object for a manly thought, As those things, which in Heav’n above us be. _God_, gave _Mankinde_ (above all other Creatures) A lovely _Forme_, and upward-looking _Eye_, (Among the rest of his peculiar _Features_) That he might lift his _Countenance_ on high: And (having view’d the Beauty, which appeares Within the outward _Sights_ circumference) That he might elevate above the Sphæres, The piercing Eye, of his _Intelligence_. Then, higher, and still higher strive to raise His _Contemplations_ Eyes, till they ascend To gaine a glimpse of those eternall _Rayes_, To which all undepraved _Spirits_ tend. For, 'tis the proper nature of the _Minde_ (Till fleshly _Thoughts_ corrupt it) to despise Those Lusts whereto the _Body_ stands inclin’d; And labour alwayes, _upward_ to arise. Some, therefore, thought those _Goblins_ which appeare To haunt old _Graves_ and _Tombes_, are _Soules_ of such, Who to these loathsome places doomed were, Because, they doted on the _Flesh_ too much. But, sure we are, _well-minded Men_ shall goe To live _above_, when others bide _below_. _Those =Fields=, which yet appeare not so, When =Harvest= comes, will =yellow= grow._ [Illustration: FLAVESCENT ILLVSTR. XLIV. _Book. 1._]