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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 24-27
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The light is a most sweet, pleasant creature to behold, and the Lord takes the guidance of it into his own hand, he parts it, he proportions it out as himself pleaseth. And as this is true of aerial light, so of a better light than that which shines in the air, (though that be an excellent light) the light of the Gospel. The work of God is as wonderful, I may say, much more wonderful in parting and dividing, in distributing and proportioning the light of the Gospel, than it is in distributing and giving forth the light of the Sun. Doth he not at the same time cause that light to shine upon one place, while it is darkness in another? As he made aerial darkness to be a plague in the Land of Egypt, while it was light in Goshen, so he leaves many places under spiritual darkness, while others enjoy that blessed light, in ⟨p. 199⟩a clear and constant shining. And as the Egyptians with all their learning, could not tell the way how God parted the light then, that it should be light in Goshen, and darkness to feeling, or darkness that might be felt in all the other parts of Egypt; so who can give a reason of that distribution of Gospel light which God makes to some parts of the world, while other parts of it sit in darkness and in the very shadow of death?
The light is a most sweet, pleasant creature to behold, and the Lord takes the guidance of it into his own hand, he parts it, he proportions it out as himself pleaseth. And as this is true of aerial light, so of a better light than that which shines in the air, (though that be an excellent light) the light of the Gospel. The work of God is as wonderful, I may say, much more wonderful in parting and dividing, in distributing and proportioning the light of the Gospel, than it is in distributing and giving forth the light of the Sun. Doth he not at the same time cause that light to shine upon one place, while it is darkness in another? As he made aereal darkness to be a plague in the Land of Egypt, while it was light in Goshen, so he leaves many places under spiritual darkness, while others enjoy that blessed light, in ⟨p. 199⟩a clear and constant shining. And as the Egyptians with all their learning, could not tell the way how God parted the light then, that it should be light in Goshen, and darkness to feeling, or darkness that might be felt in all the other parts of Egypt; so who can give a reason of that distribution of Gospel light which God makes to some parts of the world, while other parts of it sit in darkness and in the very shadow of death?