A44675:80
A discourse relating to the much-lamented death and solemn funeral of our incomparable and…
A discourse relating to the much-lamented death and solemn funeral of our incomparable and most gracious Queen Mary, of most blessed memory by John Howe.
London: printed for Brabazon Aylmer, 1695
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
This Knowledge, or Vision, now in Perfection, is most deeply and inwardly penetrative, efficacious, and transforming, admits a Light, which spreads and transfuses it self through the whole Soul. So it is, at first, in every truly regenerate Spirit; whereby such an one is begotten into the Divine Likeness; his Image is impressed upon it, which, as hath been noted, is said to be renewed in Knowledge, Col. 3. 10. So that, as by solemn Message to the Sons of Men, God is declared to be pure Light, 1 John 1. 5. (This then is the Message which we have heard of him, and declare to you, that God is Light, and with him is no Darkness at all.) And as he is the Original, the paternal Light, the Father of Lights, Jam. 1. 17. so they that are born of him are said to be Light it self, and the Children of Light. Ye were Darkness, but now are you Light in the Lord, walk as Children of Light, Eph. 5. 8. And they are therefore said, as the Sons of God, to shine as Lights, Phil. 2. 15. (or required to do so; for the Words bear either Form.) This so energetical, efficacious Light, is, in the mentioned Texts, manifestly intended to connote Holiness, as it doth also, Rom. 13. 12. which the Antithesis there shows, Works of Darkness, and Armour of Light; and in many other Places.
This Knowledg, or Vision, now in Perfection, is most deeply and inwardly penetrative, efficacious, and transforming, admits a Light, which spreads and transfuses it self through the whole Soul. So it is, at first, in every truly regenerate Spirit; whereby such an one is begotten into the Divine Likeness; his Image is impress'd upon it, which, as hath been noted, is said to be renewed in Knowledg, Col. 3. 10. So that, as by solemn Message to the Sons of Men, God is declared to be pure Light, 1 John 1. 5. (This then is the Message which we have heard of him, and declare to you, that God is Light, and with him is no Darkness at all.) And as he is the Original, the paternal Light, the Father of Lights,