An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…

5. Gods grace therefore is the same, with that which the Scripture calls the light of his countenance; Which is an allusion to men, who when they were pleased, and delight in any, they look in a smiling and cheerful manner upon such. Thus it is with God, when he is reconciled through Christ with those that are his, he doth presently cast away his anger, doth no longer turn his face from them, abhorring and loathing their persons and duties; but he accepts of them, looketh upon them with delight: Insomuch that the Scripture makes this to be the utmost blessedness, that a godly man can desire to have, The light of Gods countenance shining upon him, to be under his gracious favour, as you see by Davids earnest petition for it, and the sad troubles and distresses, which were upon his soul when he hid his face from him. So that to partake of Gods grace comprehends all the comfort, glory and blessedness we can desire.

5. Gods grace therefore is the same, with that which the Scripture calls the light of his countenance; Which is an allusion to men, who when they were pleased, and delight in any, they look in a smiling and chearfull manner upon such. Thus it is with God, when he is reconciled through Christ with those that are his, he doth presently cast away his anger, doth no longer turn his face from them, abhorring and loathing their persons and duties; but he accepts of them, looketh upon them with delight: Insomuch that the Scripture makes this to be the utmost blessedness, that a godly man can desire to have, The light of Gods countenance shining upon him, to be under his gracious favour, as you see by Davids earnest petition for it, and the sad troubles and distresses, which were upon his soul when he hid his face from him. So that to partake of Gods grace comprehends all the comfort, glory and blessedness we can desire.

6. This property of God, of being gracious, though it hath always been to the Church since Adam's fall, yet it hath broken out by degrees: Insomuch that ⟨p. 102⟩the Gospel time is the time of grace in a more eminent manner. Abraham, and Noah, and David, these were all justified by grace, as well as we, though in Christs time this glorious light break out into its full lustre. God telleth Moses,