the eye of God toward him, he tells God, Mine eyes are ever towards the Lord.
Ever,] You cannot understand that actually and uncessantly his thoughts and heart were towards God, and his mind taken up with him; for by the necessity of this life, and the Law of it, he was some∣times to be taken up with other things: But when he says, Mine eyes are ever towards the Lord, he means these three things.
1. That the disposition of his Soul was such, that he could be always looking upon God; he could wish, that when he is de∣parted out of himself, and got up, that he might never come down more, and never have any other work in the world but this, to behold God. Thus always is taken in the Scriptures. In Acts 10.2. Cornelius is said to pray [always,] that is, he had a disposi∣tion, his heart was ready to pray always. Acts 7.51. It's said of the Jews, They were stiff-necked and hard-hearted [always] to resist the Holy Ghost; this was their tem∣per: like a stone that resists the hand of the workman, takes in no impression, but is wholly shut up to it self.
2. When he saith, Mine eyes are always towards the Lord, he means this, That upon all occasions, in every condition, in all places, his eyes were towards God. In