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

Secondly, Forasmuch as Elihu saith, We cannot order our speech by reason of darkness; we, though knowing men, know not what to say.

Note; There is much darkness remaining in those that have most light in this world.

They that know much and have the clearest sight, are yet dark in many things; what they see is but little to what they see not (1 Cor. 13.9.) We know but in part, and (vers. 12.) We see through a glass darkly. The sight that we have of things, though in a Gospel-way, is but a kind of dark sight, we see through a glass darkly. Elihu saw himself compassed about with much darkness; and who may not find darkness yet abiding in him? What-ever our light or knowledge is, all that we know is not half so much as that which we know not; this should humble us. We are very apt to ⟨p. 585⟩be proud of that knowledge we have (Knowledge puffs up) but did we remember how much ignorance is mixed and amassed with our knowledge, how much darkness with our light, we should see little reason to be proud of it, or puffed up with it.

They that know much and have the clearest sight, are yet dark in many things; what they see is but little to what they see not (1 Cor. 13.9.) We know but in part, and (vers. 12.) We see through a glass darkly. The sight that we have of things, though in a Gospel-way, is but a kind of dark sight, we see through a glass darkly. Elihu saw himself compast about with much darkness; and who may not find darkness yet abiding in him? What-ever our light or knowledge is, all that we know is not half so much as that which we know not; this should humble us. We are very apt to