“I WILL lift up mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help” is the voice of faith; for the flesh thinketh the cross and all calamities to come from these hills, and therefore calleth them not the hills from whence cometh help and comfort but desolation and destruction, when it seeth itself in hatred with the world for religion, in poverty, in temptations, in dangers, in terrors. This seemeth to be a desolation and a casting away from the face of God, and a descending into hell. Against this judgment of the flesh fighteth faith, and judgeth not according to that which it feeleth and seeth, but according to the word which the Lord hath spoken, which biddeth us lift up our eyes to invisible comforts, and to become, as it were, invisible, and, by faith, in poverty to behold riches; in heaviness and sorrow, joy and comfort; in desolation and destruction, help and succour; and when we seem to be cast away from God, even then to believe, and by faith to lay sure hold on, God’s eternal mercy and grace in Christ. Thou must lift up thine eyes, and in no wise fix them upon the present troubles, calamities, or afflictions, whatsoever the flesh seeth, feeleth, or suffereth; for that is to obey and consent to the eyes and ears; that is to say, to hearken to the flesh, which is always ready to persuade thee that God is angry with thee, that He hath forsaken thee, that thy danger is such and so terrible that thou canst never escape it. Here, therefore, thou must lift up thine eyes to the hills of the Lord, and hearken to the voice of God, who saith and promiseth that help shall surely come from those hills, which—albeit for the time it be invisible and can neither be seen nor felt—yet it is most certain and infallible. They that are in wealth, glory, and dignity lift not up their eyes to these invisible things; but such as are in poverty, contempt of the world, afflicted in body or mind, are forced to lift up their eyes, that the help which is invisible may be made to them visible by faith, according to the promise of God made unto them in His Word.—”SOUND DOCTRINE,” English Churchman.