A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, writtenA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written

2 Caligo miseriae, the darkness of calamity and trouble: for so the Hebrews took it, and by light the deliverance from it, the comfort that doth follow it. Sorrow lasts for a night: that is, misery: the effect is put for the cause, the daughter for the mother: but Joy cometh in the morning, Eccl. 11.8. Though a man rejoice many years, yet let him remember the days of darkness for they shall be many: that is, the days of sorrow. So many days of trouble, so many days of darkness. Psal. 91.5. Thou shalt not be afraid for the terrors by night. This same Pavor nocturnus, is of all fears most terrible. Pray that your flight be not in the night; it was CHRISTS warning to the Jews. Nothing is more without comfort than darkness, nothing more without joy than calamity. Hence it is that comforts in holy writ be let down. Nomine lucis, under the name of light. Psal. 112.4. Unto the righteous there ariseth light in the darkness; that is, comfort in trouble. Job 18.5. The light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine: all his joy, comfort, hope shall be extinguished. So miseries are called darkness: David in his afflictions complains, that the darkness had covered him. Hereupon some have derived Lugere, quasi luce egere. The godly are called the Children of light, Luke 16.8. Now can the children of light mourn, while the Sun of comfort is with them? No more, than the children of the Bridechamber, in the presence of the Bridegroom Matth 9.15. He is mad that can be merry in darkness; he is worse than mad that can laugh and sing in wretchedness. Eccl. 3.4. There is a time to laugh, and a time to weep: there is a time of light, and a time of darkness. There is a time to laugh, and that is he time of light: there is a time to weep, and that is the time of darkness, Psal. 137.4. Do you require of us a Song in our heaviness? How shall we sing the