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

Note; The work of God in ordering light and darkness is wonderful.

And we cannot but be convinced that it is so, if we consider; First, The constant succession of day and night in all places. As sure as the day cometh, the night will come; and as sure as the night is come, day is coming. There is an unchangeable change ⟨p. 172⟩between light and darkness, they mil• •or a moment in their comings or returnings. Secondly, If we consider light and darkness as to their increase or decrease in any place, thus, Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night showeth knowledge (P•al. 19.2.) which some think was a well known Adage or Proverbial Speech among the Jews, importing the power of God over, and his guidance of them both. God brings the light to the bound of it, to day at this hour, or minute of the hour, to morrow at that. There is a constant inconstancy, an uneven evenness between light and darkness upon the face of the earth. We never have light or darkness twice of the same length in the same place and season; yet they ever keep their place and season all the world over: where you had them the last year, upon such a day, there you may have them this, without a moments variation, though they have varied their course many moments every day since. Thus exactly doth the Lord take or lead the light to its bound, and knows the paths to the house thereof.

And we cannot but be convinced that it is so, if we consider; First, The constant succession of day and night in all places. As sure as the day cometh, the night will come; and as sure as the night is come, day is coming. There is an unchangeable change ⟨p. 172⟩between light and darkness, they mil• •or a moment in their comings or returnings. Secondly, If we consider light and darkness as to their increase or decrease in any place, thus, Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge (Pal. 19.2.) which some think was a well known Adage or Proverbial Speech among the Jews, importing the power of God over, and his guidance of them both. God brings the light to the bound of it, to day at this hour, or minute of the hour, to morrow at that. There is a constant inconstancy, an uneven evenness between light and darkness upon the face of the earth. We never have light or darkness twice of the same length in the same place and season; yet they ever keep their place and season all the world over: where you had them the last year, upon such a day, there you may have them this, without a moments variation, though they have varied their course many moments every day since. Thus exactly doth the Lord take or lead the light to its bound, and knows the paths to the house thereof.