Chap. i2. .An Eo`poftion.atpon the Bool¿ of Job.VerC.25. 335. Verf:i5. Theygrope in the darkwithout light;and they flaggar like a drunken man. They grope in the dark without light. The word fignifies to find out or proveour way by feeling,this Ú'ßo we call groping. In the daik, hands or Raves are to us in Read of paf .ivit teti' eyes. Ablind-man though he be it the open Sun, yet he gropes grr,rangendo for his way, for he wants the light of his eyes : a man whohath exploravir. the light of his eyes, yeL wanting the light of the air,and being inoutward darknefs, even he muftgrope his way ( Job 5.zg,. Ell- Dinisicutus h'- describing the judgment of (>od upon the men of The ta.um eft cot, world,fairh ; They meet with darknefs in thedxy time, andgrope in & 172c77 IS aut a-. the noon day as in the night,thaE. is,in Erin" s tnac are clear and evi- repta ant con- dent they are puzzled, land knownot whichway -to turn them- turban vebc- (elves, when the way lies f$rait and is without turnings. It is a menrer. Sand. great judgment ofGnd,when in bufinefffes that areas clear as day, men ftand beating their brains, and troubling them(elves, as if they were in thedark.It is very ill to -want líght,but it is worfe to have light and not to ufe it. Theregrope in the darkwithout light. There is a twofold darknefs; Firft, Natural, that' is not here meant. Secondly, Metaphorical ; and that is of two forts, Firft, The darkneCSof ignorance. Secondly, The darknefs of tróuble or of affi&ion. Wemay underaand the text,of darknefs in ei- therof the two latter fenfes, They grope in the dark, that is, in the darknefs of ignorance : or, in the darknefs of trouble. Rather joys both together, theyare in trouble, and theyar e ignorant, not knowing which way to get out, andclear their way. But why dothhe fay, They grope in the darkwithout light. Light and darknefs are contrary what agreement is there (faith the Apoft e) between light and darknefs? Though there be no agreement between light and darknefs, }et fometimes there is a mixture of light and darknefs; Come darknefs hath fome light in it : That's it we call twylight, the dusk of the evening or of themorning, there is a time when it is not per- fe&ly dark, yet the light is gone, theSun is down. Sucha day is- defer ib'ed in the bookof Zecbary, A day which fhall he neither darknor light, but it fhall be between both. In it ismercy, that when we have not a clear light, yet to have Rome glimmering, or appcaraiace
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