296 Chap. ç. An Expefstion open the Beek of j o B. \etf. iq then God {huts them judicially, andblinds themwith light.The Apoftle quoting this texr,Aa.23.27.expóunds it fo,Tbeir eyes have theybows clefed, laafl they fluid fee ; for this , God doled them that they could not fce. Patel was preaching, and he preached Chrift the true leght,The Sun ofrighteeufnefs : BJhold the mifery fpoken of in this text, That' met with darknefs in the day rims. This is the condemnation , that light u coarse into the world, and Men laze darknefs rather then light. Why love they darkaéfs ? Brcaufe they fee not the light : Andbecaufe they fee not the 1;ght,therc- forethey cannot love it.It is impollible to feethe light,the beau- tiful faceof the truth,as it is revealed in Chrifl, and not to love it. AHeathen faid,if vertue(much more if Gofpel truth 1 were Peen, every eye would he taken, and every heart led captive by it. Agreat part of the world bath not this light to fee; and the great&part of thofe, who have this light, fee it not.Thcy muff needs meet with darknefs, who are darknefs, in the day time. And they muff grope ar noon day,as in the night,whoare night. If men hear the law and the teflimony, and neither (peak nor doaccording to that word,it {; ( as the Prophet gives the rea- fon) becaufe there is no light its them ; or es. a Hebrew, No tuern- ingr in them, I fa.8,20. Till the day-fiar arife, in star hearts, the day before our eyes, is night.. Secondly, obfetve, Plain things are often obfcars to the , 44myfl k:ewing men. Thty gropeat neon day, eu in the dtgií 3 That which a man may fee with ',Oafax eya (as we f°ay) h eíe men who think them- felves Ottlye, cannot fee. M of acute and fagacious under - flandings, men quick-fightcd like Eagles, prove asdul, as Bee- tles. Owlsand Bats fee to the dark , better then in the light And(in a fenfe)it is true of thefe,they can fee about the works of darkncfs,but the light of holinefs and juflice,they cannot fee. The reafon is given in that of Chrill, The light that is in them is darknefs, no wonder then >if the light without them be darknefs; if the inward light, the light that is in them be darknefs , how great is that darknefs; fo great that it quite darkens the outward light. Inwarddarknefs is to on,ward light, as agreat 'ward- light is to a f all'ore(in regardof our rife or benefit) it exts ?gesiflies and over,- COWS it. Hence thcfe then cannot fee, theplainefl obje&, in the clearefl light.Light fhine;h ïn dark,;efs,and the darknefs cemprebendetb it not, job. I. 5. Chrifi
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