An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…

It is darkness that usually hinders the putting of things in order: Darkness in the Air doth so, much more darkness of the Understanding. There must be light of one kind or other for the ordering of every matter. Where darkness is there must needs be confusion: and therefore Elihu gives a very good account, why they could not order their speech, when he saith, We cannot do it by reason of darkness. What da•kness? there is a twofold da kness,

First, There is darkness proper, or natural. Once there was darkness, because light wa• no• come or created; of that Moses speaks (Gen. 1.3, 4.) Darkness was upon the face of the deep. Now there is darkness eve y night, caused by the departure of light, or the going down of the Sun; as also sometimes by the Eclipse of the Sun (Matth. 27.45.) There was darkness over all the land, when Christ was crucified. It was not this kind of darkness, that hindered Elihu from ordering his speech; for a man may order his speech though he have neither Sun-light nor Candle-light; a man needs no other light, but that of Reason and Understanding to order his speech by.

First, There is darkness proper, or natural. Once there was darkness, because light wa• no• come or created; of that Moses speaks (Gen. 1.3, 4.) Darkness was upon the face of the deep. Now there is darkness eve y night, caused by the departure of light, or the going down of the Sun; as also sometimes by the Eclipse of the Sun (Matth. 27.45.) There was darkness over all the land, when Christ was crucified. It was not this kind of darkness, that hindred Elihu from ordering his speech; for a man may order his speech though he have neiher Sun-light nor Candle-light; a man needs no other light, but that of Reason and Understanding to order his speech by.