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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.
And that's the first Branch of the Doctrine, That God's People, they may have a dark Night: A Night of Affliction, when God lays an Embargo upon all their Comforts: And a Night of Desertion, which is a short Hell.
Secondly, The second Branch of the Proposition is this, That now a Morning Light shines upon the Righteous.—Unto the Upright there ariseth Light in the Darkness. Lux oritur, A Morning Light shines. The Philosopher says, Non dantur purae tenebrae. When 'tis Darkest, when there's Midnight, God will cause Light some way or other, to break forth to the Upright in Heart. In Psal. 18. 28. The Lord will light my Candle. As if David had said, Though at present all my Comforts seem to be blown out, and I am left in the dark, yet the Lord will light my Candle: he will make Light to arise in Obscurity.
There is a twofold Light that God causes to arise 1upon the Upright when they are in the dark.
- 1A twofold Light arising to the Upright.