An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…

Fourthly, The light is very wonderful in the changes and vicissitudes of it. How it passeth and repasseth, how it increaseth and decreaseth, how it comes and goes, is an amazing consideration.

Fifthly, Though the light be in continual changes, yet there's nothing more constant than the light, to its appointed time. Light never fails to come in its season.

Secondly, That light is a most useful and beneficial creature, who can deny? seeing without light the whole Creation were a nothing to us. What had the world been to us, if God had not made light, and set up lights in it? The eye of the body (whi•h is the light of the body, Matth. 6.22.) were of no use to us without outward light. Till the Sun (which is the eye of the great world) shines, the eye (which is the Sun of the little world) is no advantage to us. There must be light in the air, as well as light in the eye, else the most beautiful objects have no appearing beauty; and therefore the Lord made light the first day, that by it, the beauty of the whole Creation might be seen. Light discovers it self and all other things: Light illustrates all the works of God, and sets them in our sight. And as all that God hath done, would be nothing to us without light, so we our selves could do nothing without light. We cannot work at all, or very hardly, or very badly, without light; hence that of David (Psal. 104.22, 23.) The Sun ariseth; man goeth forth to his work and to his labour, until the evening. (John 9.4.) The night cometh, wherein no man can work. Night of any sort, is not for work, because 'tis dark; and therefore they who work in the night, get artificial light to supply the want of natural. When the plague of darkness was upon the Egyptians, they sate still, and no man moved from the place where he was, till that plague was removed (