One Hundred and Ninety Sermons on Psalm 119

2. The light which they beg, is not any thing besides the word. When God is said to enlighten us, it is not that we should expect new Revelations, but that we may see the wonders in his word, or get a clear sight of what is already revealed. Those that vent their own dreams under the name of the Spirit, and divine light, they do not give you mysteria, but monstra, portentous opinions; not show you the wondrous things of Gods Law, but the prodigies of their own brain; unhappy abortives, that dye as soon as they come to light. Isa. 8. 21. To the Law, and to the Testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. The light which we have, is not without the word, but by the word.

Now to the phrase; the Hebrew signifieth unveil mine eyes. There is a double work, Negative, Positive. There is a taking away the veil, and an infusion of light. Paul's cure of his natural blindness, is a fit emblem of our cure of spiritual blindness, Acts 9. 18. Immediately there ⟨p. 108⟩fell from his eyes as it had been scales, and he received sight forthwith. First the scales fall from our eyes, and then we receive sight.

Now to the phrase; the Hebrew signifieth unvail mine eyes. There is a double work, Negative, Positive. There is a taking away the vail, and an infusion of light. Paul's cure of his natural blindness, is a fit emblem of our cure of spiritual blindness, Acts 9. 18. Immediately there ⟨p. 108⟩fell from his eyes as it had been scales, and he received sight forthwith. First the scales fall from our eyes, and then we receive sight.