ation and transgression. My son, let thine eyes look right
on. Ponder the path of thy feet, turn not to the right hand nor to the
left--remove thy foot from all evil!

4. There is still another eye that is almost as good as an eye out
altogether, and that is a Job's eye. Job was the first author of that
eye and all we who have that excellent eye take it of him. 'I have made
a covenant with mine eyes,' said that extraordinary man--that
extraordinarily able, honest, exposed and exercised man. Now, you must
all know what a covenant is. A covenant is a compact, a contract, an
agreement, an engagement. In a covenant two parties come to terms with
one another. The two covenanters strike hands, and solemnly engage
themselves to one another: I will do this for you if you will do that for
me. It is a bargain, says the other; let us have it sealed with wax and
signed with pen and ink before two witnesses. As, for instance, at the
Lord's Table. I swear, you say, over the Body and the Blood of the Son
of God, I swear to make a covenant with mine eyes. I will never let them
read again that idle, infidel, scoffing, unclean sheet. I will not let
them look on any of my former images or imaginations of forbidden
pleasures. I swear, O Thou to whom the night shineth as the day, that I
will never again say, Surely the darkness shall cover me! See if I do
not henceforth by Thy grace keep my feet off every slippery street. That,
and many other things like that, was the way that Job made his so noble
covenant with his eyes in his day and in his land. And it was because he
so made and so kept his covenant that God so boasted over him and said,
Hast thou considered my servant Job? And then, every covenant has its
two sides. The other side of Job's covenant, of which God Himself was
the surety, you can read and think over in your solitary lodgings
to-night. Read Job xxxi. 1, and then Job xl. to the end, and then be
sure you take covenant paper and ink to God before you sleep. And let
all fashionable young ladies hear what Miss Rossetti expects for herself,
and for all of her sex with her who shall subscribe her covenant. 'True,'
she admits, 'all our life long we shall be bound to refrain our soul, and
keep it low; but what then? For the books we now refrain to read we
shall one day be endowed with wisdom and knowledge. For the music we
will not listen to we shall join in the song of the redeemed. For the
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