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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of the book of Job being the substance of thirty-five lectures / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. Simmons, 1664
AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-fifth, Th… › Chapter 37 › Verses 19-20
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Hence note; First (taking darkness in the improper sense) Ignorance is darkness.
Hence note; First (taking darkness in the improper sence) Ignorance is darkness.
If that ignorance which remaineth after conversion be darkness, then surely much more is that which dwelleth in a natural man unconverted. Knowledge is the light of the mind: The understanding, if furnished with knowledge, is as the Sun in the Firmament; but a man who hath no knowledge nor understanding, is like the Air without the Sun, nothing but darkness; and so much ignorance as abideth in any man, so much darkness abideth in him. The natural man is altogether ignorant, as to the understanding of spiritual things spiritually, that is, savingly, and therefore he (as to them) is altogether darkness, he is (as Job spake in another case of a land, Chap. 10.22.) a man of darkness, as darkness it self, and in him the light is as darkness; he cannot see by reason of darkness, nor can he speak, to purpose, of the things of God, though he may speak very wisely about the things of the world, by reason of darkness, or because his very Reason (which is the natural light of man) is darkened.
If that ignorance which remaineth after conversion be darkness, then surely much more is that which dwelleth in a natural man unconverted. Knowledge is the light of the mind: The under•tanding, if fu•nished with knowledge, is as the Sun in the Firmament; but a man who hath no knowledge nor understanding, is like the Air wi•hout the Sun, nothing but darkness; and so much ignorance as abideth in any man, so much darkness abideth in him. The natu•al man is altogether ignorant, as to the understanding of spiri•ual things spiritually, that is, savingly, and therefore he (as to them) is altogether darkness, he is (as Job spake in another case of a land, Chap. 10.22.) a man of darkness, as darkness it self, and in him the light is as darkness; he cannot see by reason of darkness, nor can he speak, to purpose, of the things of God, though he may speak very wisely about the things of the world, by reason of darkness, or because his very Reason (which is the natural light of man) is darkened.