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

Into chains of darkness.] Into darkness, there's their Misery. Into ch••••s, there's their Slavery. Darkness signifies the wrath of God, and is opposed to th•• favour of his, which is called Lux vultus sui; the light of his countenance, Psal. 4.6. There is true light where the Father of lights shineth: and his absence causeth dark nesse.^a That City hath no need of the Sun or Moon to shine in it: for the glory of God doth lighten it, and the Lamb is the light of it. Such a glorious light, that the very Sun is obscurity to it. Created lights, which now so comfort us, and whi•• some worship for Deities, shall then resign their honours. Mat. 24.29. The Sun […] be darkened, and the Moon shall not give her light. Shall not then the Sun shine at […] day? Yes, it is not darkened Diminutione luminis, sed comparatione majoris lu•i•• not by loss of the own light, but by the comparison of a greater light: as a […] is of small benefit, when the Sun appeareth. Otherwise,^b the Light of the M•• shall be as the light of the Sun, and the light of the Sun shall be seven-fold, as the light […] seven days. But then these lights shall be overshined; as the Moon that rejoyc••• travellers in the night, gives place when the Sun riseth; and men do not mi••• Lord when the King appeareth. Therefore it is called Lumen inaccessibile, ^ca lig•• which no man (in his mortality and sin) can approach unto. In heaven there is all light and no darkness, in hell all darkness and no light. As the joy of the Saints […] Angels in heaven, so the wretchedness of the lost in hell, is so great that is cannot enlarged.