Chap.3. EIn Expoftion upon the Boo, of J O B. VerC4.. 353' Let not God regardit , neither'"let the lightíhine upon it. That which before he fpake agàin1t his day,by' wifhing it dark nëfs, he fpeaks over again andmore in other words, by wiflting light might be denyed and withheld from it Po have no light,is not apare repetition, or an explication of what it is to be in dark- nefs,but it isan addition to,"or an aggravation Of it : So the Pro- phet, Ifa.5o.tó. by hin-i that rvalksindarknefs, and hatb no light,. Pets out the faddeft condition ofan A-lifted Soul. No light is not only darknefs,but pure darknefs; as when the Apottle ph/would advance the glory ofGod, he fàith, God is light, andin him there no darknef atah,(i-Ep.c.t.)God is pure light; fo darknefs without light is pure darknefs: Let not the Light.] As darknefs ; fo light may be taken either properly for natural light,that which God Mil created: light was the heft perfect vifible creature,light was the lieffdayes work, and by the work of the fourth was gathered into thofe heavenly Vef- fels, the Sun,Moon, andStars, and there put, that it might be di ftienfed andcarried about the world, efpecia.11y by that Chariot of the Sun. Let this light, this natural light, be withheld,let it not thine (faith Job )upon that day.The withdrawing ofnatural light is a great àffliftiorr to the world: Light is the molt incorporeal of all corporal things ; the fpiritualnels of i' The wes the goodncfs of it: Light is the beauty,and difcovers all the beauty of the World. As a goodly adorn'd furnifh'd roomwithout a window, or a can- dle, filch is the world without light. Light is not only the light, but the life of the world, itquickens and comforts the motions of nature ; it is the inflrument by which all the influences of Heaven arecommunicated to theEarth , which being flopt, the courfeof nature flops : This caufed a great Philofopher to cry out(when at the pallion of Chritt, the light of the Sun was totally eclipfed ) Either the Gadofnature fuffers,or thewhole frame of nature diffolves. Was it not then a dreadful curfe,whenjobwithes the light, taking it for natural light) might not thine opon his day ? But further, take it improperly, then,/et not the light thine upon" it,hath this voyce i&it,Let there be no comfort, no joy, no good thing in the coìnpafr.ofthat day. Light in Scripture expreiles all good, as darknefs all evil:That great bleffing which was promifed unto the Church in the great Reftauration ofit,is thadowed by light,and by Zz ±
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