Eyille ofS.Psal so Tad. this gift to fuch wretched& vngodly peifons ffrongly perfwadeth. that we thud as freely offer our felues to the light, as it freely offereth it felfe voto vs. The which reafon isexpreffe in the text, which faith, that this grace offered it felfe, andappeared, when met fought it not,elefrred it not, obtained it not by entreatie, or othcrwife. So loh. 3. r 9, thelight wcome into the wend, narnely,thc world not expe&ing it, nor wilbing ir, nay when it (hone glorieuflyvpon them,they not acknowledging it;and this is not the leaff motiuc to thewilling and thankcfull ercrrtainement of it. Not c: ithaanding all which reafons, what a iva damnation hatigeth oiler many mens heads, whoBill loue darkeneíle rather then light. For, t..,a number pleafe themfelues intheir naturals eliace,iind fufffcient con- tent in ir, and are neuer fo rnerrie, as when this light is furthc(f off: the. Ifraelicies neuer dance fomerrily, as before the calfe, which themièlues (èt vp.So will they faare no cofi,and paints, to compaffe their lul}s;they will part with their goods, as the Ifraelites with their eating ; they will breake their (leepe to deuife worker of datkenc(feon their beddes: yea, they will powre out their ffrengthandblood (as Baalsprieas did) and part with their lines , fo footle as let their fweete morfclts goc : Iudas will not leaue his couetoufncffe,for all our Sauiours faire warnings: nei- thercan ail theplagues of God, monue Pharaoh to let the people goc. Thus numbers turne from the light, who by it (hould bee allured to a- mendment of life. a. Others turne againff ir, and hate it,and the candlefficks too which hold it forth vnto them : they complaint of the brightnes of the futine, and of too much preaching: they icoffe at it, and dilgrace it , and the bringers of it : and thefe are monßcrs in nature : for all creatures natu- rally loue light, and follow it,except hatcfull battes, and owles,& fuch like: all true men loue the light , and the day, but the theife robbeth in the night, the adulterer watcheth the twilight, he that is drunk is drunk' in the night, andChriff concluded again ft him that'nateththe háht,thati he isanculli doer, ;.Others arenot fo malicious againa the light,but would fairly ioyne light and darkeneffe together : they would be profcffors, and goe for good Chri(fians, but would not forfake tome profits and plcafures of (inne. The heft thing that euer God did in the creation., was the fepara- tionof light from datkeneffe ; which is thebra thing alto inregenerati- on. The lawcondemned all mixtures, andhaliing berweene two; and the Grsfpel tcacheth, that we are either children os the night, or of the day, and-cannot be both at onecime,uo morethen it can he night when the future i.s in thenidff of heauerr. Let profc(tors therefore know F f 1 ing C.HAP.1.i$ 451 Many retufe the Tighe, I 2 3
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