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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second, being the five last, chapters of the book of Job being the substance of fifty-two lectures or meditations / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. and S. Simmons, 1666
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AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-eighth, T… › Chapter 38 › Verse 19-21
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Again, Spiritual darkness hath its place; and we should labour to know the place of that darkness, to avoid it. Ignorance is spiritual darkness, and that dwells in the heart of every man by nature. All that continue in that sad condition, have their understanding darkened through the ignorance that is in them, (Eph. 4.18.) and they who now are in the light, were once in the dark, yea they were darkness (Eph. 5.8.) Let it also be remembered, in whomsoever this darkness of sin and ignorance abides, they must abide under the darkness of wrath and judgement for ever. The place where that darkness dwells is hell, and there outer darkness (as 'tis often called in the Gospel) dwells, even such darkness as wherein the damned are not only out of the possession of the least ray or glimmering of light, but without any hope or expectation of it. Hell is quite beyond the bound or boundaries of light; there's darkness and thick darkness, nothing but darkness. Thus we see light and darkness have their places, natural light and darkness have theirs, and so have spiritual and eternal light and darkness.
Again, Spiritual darkness hath its place; and we should labour to know the place of that darkness, to avoid it. Ignorance is spiritual darkness, and that dwells in the heart of every man by nature. All that continue in that sad condition, have their understanding darkened through the ignorance that is in them, (Eph. 4.18.) and they who now are in the light, were once in the dark, yea they were darkness (Eph. 5.8.) Let it also be remembred, in whomsoever this darkness of sin and ignorance abides, they must abide under the darkness of wrath and judgement for ever. The place where that darkness dwells is hell, and there outer darkness (as 'tis often called in the Gospel) dwells, even such darkness as wherein the damned are not onely out of the possession of the least ray or glimmering of light, but without any hope or expectation of it. Hell is quite beyond the bound or boundaries of light; there's darkness and thick darkness, nothing but darkness. Thus we see light and darkness have their places, natural light and darkness have theirs, and so have spiritual and eternal light and darkness.