552 Chap. 24. AnSxpofition upon the Bookof J O B. Vert. i 3 .`, of Divine Revelation is many wages answerable to the light. Firft, Light is pure, and beautiful!, and the light is fo pure, that you cannot impure, or defile it ; fo is truth : Though many have attempted to corrupt the truth and word of God, and (hall at loft bedealt with and judged, as they who have corrupted it; yet the truth remains incorruptible, and ever fhail.Tbe beauty of it fades not, nor is the purity ofit ft,ined, by all the filthof false doârine which bath been caft into the face ofit,from the bgin- ping of the world unto this day. Secondly, Light is pleafant and delightful!; Lignt ¿efrveet ( faith Solomon, Ecc!. i t. 7.) and a pleafant thing it is for the eyes to behold the Sunne : So truth is Tweet, and it is a pleafant thing tobehold and receive the Sun-light ofDivine Revelations, where truth is taken in, it doth even ravifh thefoule and fill it with unfpeakablc delights. Truth is as futable and pleafant to the underftanding, as good is or canbe to the will and affections, David found not only delight, this or that fingle delight,but all forts anddegrees ofdelight in theLaw ofGod;And thereforehe (peaksplurally (mfal. r e. 92.) Vnlejje mydelights bad been in thy law, Ihad perijhed in my trouble. And againe (ver. 143.) Trouble andangseil?i have taken bold ofme; yet thy commandements aremy defigbts.All his troubles were over- ba1'anced and conque- red by his delights in the law, and all his delights and content- ments were Center'd in the Law. That light was fomuch his de light, that it overcame all worldly darkneffe, anddid even eztin- guifh all his worldly lights. Thirdly, Light bathhate in it, and light is accompanied with influences, or conveighs themwith it. All living creatures here below are cherifhed and refrefhed, yea and things without life,as Gemms andminerals are conco&ed and refined with the warmth and vertue ofit. And fobath truth; The light of the word car- rieth heat and Influences with it, to warm the heart and comfort ir, to concoâ the groffeneffe ofmans mind and fublimate it into anheavenly purity. Did not our heart borne within tad while he talked with us by the way? andwhile be opened to ea theScriptures, laid the Difciples ofC.hrifts difcourfe with them, Luke 24. 31. Fourthly, Lightdifcovers and makes manifeft ; fodoth truth; (7obn 3. zo, z 1.) Every one that Both evil! hatetb the light, nei- ther cometh to the light, left hie deeds fhould be reproved, or (as we Put
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