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Light in darkness, or, Deliverance proclaimed unto the church in the midst of all…
Light in darkness, or, Deliverance proclaimed unto the church in the midst of all her despondencies and discouragements in a sermon / preached by Thomas Watson.
London: printed for Hen. Bettenham, 1679
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.
First,
That the Upright, those whom God loves, they may have their Night, they may have a very Dark season: They may have a two-fold Night.
They may have 1. A Night of Affliction. 2. A Night of Desertion.
1. They may have a Night of Affliction: (for Godliness does not exempt from Trouble.) A Dark Cloud may set upon their Name, upon their Estate: God may lay an Embargo upon all their Outward Comforts. In Ruth 1. 20. Call me not Naomi (that is, Fair, or Pleasant:) call me Mara: For the Almighty hath dealt very [bitterly] with me.
2. The Godly may have not only a Night of Affliction, but they may have a Night of Desertion. God may with-draw the smiling Beams of his Favour, and then 'tis Night with them indeed, then nothing follows but Darkness. In