59$ Verf, æ t. n Expgftisn upon the Book if 7 o B. Chap. 3'7. round about his Throne, or, as the Apofile expreffeth it {Pleb. 4, 16.) his Throne is then, A Throne of Grace, that is, he hash Grace or-Favour it] his heart, to befiow upon all his Peul,le, who come to him, not with a prefuming, but a believing bold;4í. Our fins and tranigreflìons are called, a (load, a thick(l.aad (Its. 4 2 a.) Ihave blotted oat -in. a (hick e'l,ud thy tra fgr f,,,;, and as -a Cloud thy fins. Sins are Clouds, and chofe Clouds often hini,r 'us fróimfeeing the bright light of the face of God fi itiipg uy ,z us; and as our 'fins ufually hinder us from Peeing that b' ight light which is in the face of God,' -fo God fometimes, to t; y the ;race^, the faith, the patience of his people, or to fee what they Will do, how the' will behave chemfelves in a dark and deferted fiate ( God T fay, fometimes for thefe And fuch like ends) with-draws him-- ,felf, and will not fuffer them to fee the bright light of ins piea- fed face. As the light of the things of this world, fo ofchat other and better world, is often hid, or the comfort of then; is conceal.. ed from us. Light is fownfor the Righteous; it doth not always fpring up and appear to the righteous. Luther chiefly infitis upon this taayf-I}cil interpretation or application of the text, giving it our by way of fmilitude ; As ( faith he ) the light of the Sean is ,many times covered with a Cloud,andfometimes hindred by Eclipfes, fo the light ofcomfort, or peace and joy in this world, is'hiddenfrom the eyes of thepe>ple of God ; yet by and by he fends a comfortable andpowerful -ale, to blow away or difilerfe chafe Clooeds,ard then the light ofhis. countenance & favourfhines freely upon them again.And let this be remeriabred, that when (heir day is a day of darknefs and gloomineffe, yet the Light fhines tail!, the favour of God is towards them (fill, though it appeares not ; and when they have been a while exercifed under this Dakneffe, Light will return as it followeth in the text , 4/lén fee not the bright light which is in the Clouds, But the wind paffeth and clearfeth them. The wind paffeth. Quefi. But what is the wind ? 4nfw, The wind is a hot and dry exhalati-n ratfed from the "Earth by thepower of the heavenly 6. 'dyes, wh-ch being repell'd or forced baekby the coldnefs ofthe middle Reg "on, roves obliquely or flae:tingly, fometimes very violently through the air. The Latine word( venfazs) fi nifying the wind,, is derived by fame Grarrma- rians
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