1.44o Chap. 29. An Expofition upon the Book of 3 o s. Verf. 3. . meaning is, b let me enjoy thy favour, or be thou favourable un- to me. And from this light of God aliningupon us, another, a third light of God, the light of joy Chines in us ; as it follows in the Pialm, where Davidhad no foonerprayed, Lord lift tboa up the light of tbyc,untenanceup9rs ane,but be ieerns to have received an aniwer prefently (v, ê.) i boy haft pot gladnefs inmyheart. 7hú' light of God isBean for the righteoa.í (PCal, 97. a a .) and it fprings up in them like the joy o' harvef,even when the labour of the Olive faileth, and the fields yield no meat (Hab. 3 i7i a8.) By all there, or any of there lights of God jobwalked thorow dark- net. The light of the counfel of God, hie word, and thç lightof the countenance of God, hiefavour, and the light ofrbe joy of God, hit coy,f<.lation.', are enough to carry us through all the dark- nefs of this world. But it may be queflioned, what thedarknefs was through which jobwalked in the lightof God. As before we had nothing to do with natural light, fo neither here with that natural darknefs which followech the departure of the Sun from or its going down below our Horizon. But in an imp: open fenfe,Darknefs in Scrip- ture language is put Figfi, Frir fin; and to walk in darknefs, is to lead a finful life (i John r . 6.) This is not the darknefs here meant, Jobdid not walke in a Hate of fin, though he had fin inhim ; nor doe we walk through rHs darknefs by the light of God, but from ir. The light of God teachethus to avoid ir, yea to abhorr it , ro have no fellowtl;ipwith the un ruitful wo.kes of it ; but it Both not help or aff,if us ro walk thorough ir. Secondly, Da knefs is ó`ren put for aff3 aion. job (I g-ant) had walked long in this darknefs,and was then walking in ir whets lie fpskrthere words; yet we cannot underff.nd chele wordsof that dcknefs, became j -b in fire king them, referrs or looks back to his profperpus Hare, in. which as he hadall manne , fo the fulleff meafure of outward mercies, and knew not what ro row meant, nor what it was to walk tho o-v the darknefs of it, as to hisown experience ; 74 in there times fca-ce ever had a cloud come over hisday, much lets washis day turned to night, or bis light to darknefs. Thi dly,by darknefs is fignified fome eminent danger,He that is ina good condition,doth fometimes tall into fuch a danger, and is corn-
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