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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.
Reason 1.
The Darkness of Desertion, it is, to quicken the exercise of Grace.
For Grace sometimes acts highest, when Comfort is lowest. In Jonah 2. 4. I said I am cast out ⟨p. 11⟩of thy sight, yet will I look again towards thy Holy Temple. That is, I will look to Christ, of whom the Temple was but a Type.
Faith and Patience, like two Stars, shine brightest in a dark Night of Desertion. We are taken with the Comforts, but God is more taken with the Actings of our Grace.