55G Chap. 24. An Expcfition urn the Beek of J OB. Verf. 13. fudgement am I come into thin world, that they which fee not might fee, and that they which fee might be made bhna : What, fayt:hey, are weal¡o blind? fefeu Paid unto them, . ifye wereblind ye ¡hculd have nofin, but now ye fay we fee, therefore your fin remaioetb; that is, it remained) in the guilt and aggravations of it. For as they corfefT.d that they faw,fo Chrift would convince them that they a ±ed againft what they law, or that though they had the light, and fo knew their duty,yet they had done contrary to duty., Man breaks through all the light that ftanda in his way,he birraks through the light both ofnature and Confcience,bexh of the Spi- rit andScripture, till himlelfe be made light. The Apoftle demon. ftrates the former in the example of the old Gentiles,who thcuE2h: they wereunder a convíâionof the power and pretence of God by the works ofCreation, and fo were faid to know God, yet they didnot like to retaine god in their knowledge, nor did they Ile, rifle him di God, (ver. 21. 28. ) but rebelled againft that l ght which (hone into their underftandings from the creature. And in the second Chapter ofthe fame epittle to the Ro,r.,tn, the Apoftle demonftrates the latter in the example of the old 7ewes, who though they were under a conviftion not only of the power and and prefence ofGod, but of the mind and will ofGod allo, by a divine Revelation, or by the light oûthe word, yet they rebelled againft that word which they boafted "of; andwhile they jtidged themfelves onely in the light,and all the reft of the world in dark- neffe, they walked in darkneffe.Behold (faith he, v. 17, ia.)thoa art calleda ?esv, and refiefi in the law,. and malefi'thy boafl of God, and knowrfi his will, &c. But how did the ew anfwer this know- ledge and this boaft,read thar(v. 21,22;23, 24, )Thou therefore which teachefis anotter, teachefi thou not thy felf ? Thou that prea- thefi a ma fhould notfieale, dcfi thouPica! : Thou who ma efi,tby boll of the law through breaking the law d;lhonourefi ebetr God? for the name ofGod u blafphemed among the Gentile, thrcaegbyou. So that wicked mendoe not onely rebell againi the light to hin- der the coming of it, or tokeep it off as long as they car, that fo they may not know what todoe, but they rebell again{} it when it is come, and will doe agairft what they know. Fifthly, When 'cis faid, Tbey rebell agaix4 the light. Obferve. Wicked
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=