The works of George Swinnock, M.A

1. It is light for its clarity and beauty; Light is the ornament of the world, which is most incorporeal of all corporeal beings, therefore termed spiritual. Though it discovers all the pollutions of the earth, yet it is not polluted therewith. The word is the glory of this lower world; The law is spiritual, and its beauty is not faded, nor its purity stained by all the filth of false doctrines and heresies which have been cast into the face of it, from the beginning of the world to this day; The word of the Lord abideth for ever.

1. It is light for its clarity and beauty; Light is the ornament of the world, which is most incorporeal of all corporeal beings, therefore termed spiritual. Though it discovers all the pollutions of the earth, yet it is not polluted therewith. The word is the glory of this lower world; The law is spiritual, and its beauty is not faided, nor its purity stained by all the filth of false doctrines and heresies which have been cast into the face of it, from the beginning of the world to this day; The word of the Lord abideth for ever.

2. Light is pleasant and delightful; darkness is affrighting and dreadful, but light is refreshing and reviving; Light is sweet, and it is a pleasant thing for the eyes to behold the sun, Eccles. 11.7. The word of God is sweet, and its a pleasant thing with the eyes of faith to behold the glorious sun of divine truths. The eye is not more affected with curious sights, nor the ear with ravishing music, nor the palate with rare meats, then a spiritualized understanding with spiritual truths. David found not only delight in the singular, but delights in the plural number, all sorts and degrees of delights in the word of God; Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me, but thy commandments are my delights. His delights in the Law of God were so rare and ravishing, that they quite extinguished all sensual delights, as the light of the day the light of a candle, and drowned the noise of all his crosses ⟨p. 417⟩