1020 / 1054
642
7hesvorrt,i
is
in
áarknefs
before
the
jo
fpcl
coney
s.
but
as
Chrill
faith,
M.
9.4t.
defus
faid
unto
then;, if
ye were
blind,
yç
fha1 have
no
(n,
hus
now
ye
f
y,
we
fee, therefore your
fin
rong
neth.
The
more
conceited
men are that they
are
in
the
light, their
tin
remaineth
to
much
the
rather,
or is the more
exceeding
(inful
now
then before
it
was
,
noman can
naturally
judge
Of
his
natural eftate,.becaufe he
is
in
darknefs
, much.
kis
Judge of fpiritual
things, let
us
never
rake the
judge-
ment
of men,
becaufe
they bave great
and lirong
parts
of
na-
ture
,
in fptritual things
,
becaufe
their
fonliih parts are
darkned;
in
dark
vaults
there
are toads
and
noifome
things
,
and
fo
there
are
in
dark hearts, Pfa/.
74.
20,
have
refpe& unto
the
Covenant,
for
the
dark
places
of
the
earth are
full
of
the habitation
of
cruelty.
It
is
no mar-
veil
though
men
be
fo
fierce
and
froward,
becaufe in
the
darke
places
of
their
hearts
there are the
habitations
of
cruelty
,
men are in
darknefs
before the
Gofpel
comes
where
the
light
of the
Gofpel
comes
not , the
Divél,
the prince'of
darknefs
doth rule
in
a
kind
of
.outward
way as
well
as
in
a
kind
of
inward
way,
in
fore
places where
they
have
not
heard
of
the Gofpel , the people worfhip the di
vel
in
a
vifible
4hape.;
this
darknefs
that
men
are in
naturally
it
is
that that
is
oppofite
to
God
himfelf for
God
is
light,
it is
+bat
that
is
hateful
to
God
,
yea
the
darknefs
of
mens
fpirit
is
not
onely
privative but pofitive,
that
is,
there
is
in.
their
hearts
anoppofit
ion
to light, anhatred
to
light,
all
the
darknefs
in
the world cannot
oppofe
the
shining
of the
light
of
the
lead
candle
,
the
light'
of
the
leafs
candle will prevail
againfl
all:
the
darknefs
of
the
world ,
but the
darknefs
that there
is
in
mans
heart,
there
is
not the
want of
the light
of
things
,
but
there
is
anoppofition
in his
heart that
keeps the
light our,
that
hates the light, their
darknefs
is
the
shadow of
death,
hellish
darkneffe
,
not
onely
that that tends to
hellish darkneffe,
but
it
is
the
beginning
of
hell that
is in
their
hearts
;:
no marvail though men
dorefl
on
f
ich vain
hopes
and
props
of
their
eternal
falvation:
Ye
are
the
light
of
the world,hence
the
whole
world
is
in
darknefs,
this being the
flare
of
man
by
nature to
be thus
in
darknefs,
that that
brings light
into
the world
it
is
the Gofpel, the
Gofpel
in the
Mitaillery
of
it
,.