4;5$ Chap.3 3, Expofatión ;lion the Book of J B. Verf. 28;. men doe. Thus Davidprayed ( Pfal: 56. i 3. )..That he might walke before.God in the light of the living. And thus the wicked man is threatned with eternall death (Pfal: 49.59. ) He¡hallgot, to thegeneration ofhis fathers, they ¡hall never feelight That is,, they.lhall never enjoy life, bout be shut up in a perpetual! night: of death, or in the night of perpetual' death. Secondly , When 'tis fayd, hislifefhallfee the light, we may, underfland it,not only for a bare rerurne to life, or that he (hall.. live, but that he Thall live comfortably andprofperoufly, he !hall,' lead a happy life. 7ofee the light, is to live and rejoyce ; light ispleafant,it is comfortable to behold the 5un,as Solomon fpeàkes.. To fee light, comprehendsall the comforts of this life , and of that to come, which is called,the.inheritance ofthe Soints in light, ( Col: E. i e.) For as darknefs is put not only,for death, but for . all the troubles ofthis life,and the torments of the next ; fo light, is put both for life, and for all the comforts of this and the next life. All the bleffings of this temporal! life, and the perfe& bief fednefs of eternal! life, are comprehended in light. Se that when °cis fayd, his life¡hall fee the light, the fence rifeth thus high ; He - (hall be happy forever ; fo extenfive is the favour of God to re- pentingperfons, that time is too narrow for it ; everlafling light ¡hall be their portion. From the former branch of the.w.ords thus opened, He will deliver himfrom the. pit. Obferve. all our deliverances are of God. As there is one candeliver like God, fo none can deliver but God. If he gives out the word that fuck aman ¡hall goe to . the pit, it is not in thepower and skill of all the Princes and Phy- fitiáns in the world , to fave or flay him from it. And how .low anddefperate foever any mans condition is, ifGod faythe word, he isdeliver'd and reprieved from going downe into the pit. Secondly, From the connexionwith the former verfe, the lick an havingmade this confeflïon, I havefinnedand.perverted that . which is right, and it profiteth.me not, the Lord prefently delivers , him, &c. Obferve. god irready;to deliver, humble praying and believingfanners. That.
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