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E
R.
8.
Ephefans,
Chap.5.
601:
deth,
when
the Apoftle
faith
of
them,
they were
darkneffe,
he
Both
let
us fee, What was
their
condition
and
ours
by
nature ,
wee
are nothing but
every
way
darknt
fe,
our
felves,
ourmayes, our
ejotes,
all
wofull.
There
is
a
threefold
darknefl'e:
Of
ignorance.
Of
fin.
Of
mifery.
Now
far
the firft,
How
had
itbeene with
thefe
Ephejians,and
how
is
it
with
us[ Truly they
had
not the Spirit
of
enlightening on the
eyes
of
their minde, they had not the Lamp
of
the
Sanctuary, this glorious
light
of
the Gofpell
of
Chrift.
Now
confider
what
a dark
world
were this
if
the
Sun
were forth
of
the firmament,
if
the
eyes
of
men
were
all
plucked
forth
:
and
though
we have
the
funfhinc
of
the Go-
fpel,
yet whilewe
are our felves we have no eye
of
the minde
to
fee
by
it,
and
therefore
aredarkeneffe.
2.
From this commeth another
darknefi'e,
of
fin,
in
our wils,
affe-
etions,
words,works
;
For
if
the
eye
be
darke
,
allthe
body is
darke like-
wife,
and
if
the
eye
of
the
minde be
forth,
all
the powers
of
the
foule
and
body that
fhould
be ordered
by
it, cannot
but
be full
of
error,
be-
ing
blindly guided.
g.
So
all
of
us in
the third
place
ate
full
of
miferies
,
which the
Scripturecalleth
darkneffe,
the
wrath
of
God,
many
evils in
this life,
and we
are all
fubjeét to eternall condemnation
in
the
life
to come,
which the Scripturecalleth utter
darkneffe.
Wherefore
let
us
labour
to
come out
of
this eftate,darknetfe
is
fear
-
full and
uncomförtable,
he
that
is
in
darkneffe knoweth
not wherehe
goeth,
on
what danger
he
runneth
,
fuch
is
the way
of
the wicked,
Prov.4.19. they
fee
not the crookedwaits of their fin,thc judgements
of
God
threaten them here
and
there, they
goe on and fall into
them.
2.
We
fee
that
theft
and
all
opts,
when
we
are
inChrif1,areenlightened,
yea made
light
by
him
r
We
are renewed
to knowledge
Wee
are
made
newcreatures, cleanfed from
the
lufts
of
the
flefh.
Ton
that are Chrlfls
have put
of
the
fefb
with
the lofts of
it. Wee
are fuch with
whomGod
is
pleafed, on whom
his
bright
countenance fhineth
here
;
Who
are
be-
gotten
to
aneverlafling
inheritance
in
light,
futh
as
never eye beheld.
This therefore
fhould make
us
bleffe
God
who bath
called
us
to
fuch admirable
light,
and it muff
warnt
us
to
thew
forth the propertie
of
light,that
is
to
thine,
if
we
be fuch
as are
light
in
the Lord.
Wee
have loft our
Thine,
our
light
is
under fome buthell or
other
;
wee doe
not
let the fupernaturali light
of
grace fo
Thine
from
us
that behold
us.
It
may
be fome will
fay
,
that they
finde
nothing
Idle
to
bee true
then this
we
fay,they are
full
of
darknefl'e.
We
are
made light
but
in
part,
like
the Moon
in
the
wane,not when
the
is in
the Full
;
though therefore
in
part wee are
dark,
yet we
are
likewife
in
part inlightened.
Some will fay,
that
if
they doe
Phew
forth thefe
things
none
doth
regard them,
nay
many will mock
at
them
as
precife
andiioly.
If
Doti,
Pf.
z
Corsas.
Gais.
Pfe.