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

First, When we behold the morning coming forth by the command of God; Let us consider who God is, and what the beauty, and purity, the majesty, and excellency of God are, who is clothed with light, and dwelleth in light, yea, who is light, and in whom there is no darkness at all. There is not any one creature, which God doth so formally predicate of himself, ⟨p. 123⟩as this of light. As God is love (1 John 4.8.) so God is light, (1 John 1.5.) yet the light which shines to us, the morning, which God hath commanded for us, is but darkness to God, who hath commanded it. Light it self is darkness, compared with God; yet 'tis the clearest shadow, the best resemblance of God in Nature.

Secondly, As we should consider the excellency and beauty of God in the appearance of the morning, so his goodness, who hath made such a creature for us, who hath also prepared so many vessels to hold it and hold it out, or to dispense it to us. 'Tis God who hath made those great lights, the Sun to rule the day, and the Moon and Stars to rule the night (Gen. 1.16.) The day would be night to us, if God had not prepared the Sun (for though there were three days before the Sun was made, yet now 'tis the Sun which makes the day) and the night would be nothing but darkness to us, if God had not prepared the Moon and the Stars. How great then is the goodness of God to man, who hath made light for us, and who thus conveys and dispenseth it to us according to our need, both by day, and by night!

Secondly, As we should consider the excellency and beauty of God in the appearance of the morning, so his goodness, who hath made such a creature for us, who hath also prepared so many vessels to hold it and hold it out, or to dispence it to us. 'Tis God who hath made those great lights, the Sun to rule the day, and the Moon and Stars to rule the night (