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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.
1. A Light of Grace. 2. A Light of Joy.
First, The Light of Grace, he makes that shine. In the midst of Darkness, let the Darkness be what it will, a dram of Faith in the Soul, is a spark of Light. When the Tree has no Leaves nor Blossoms to be seen, but seems dead in Autumn, yet there may be sap in the Root of the Vine: When our Outward Comforts are as it were dead, there may be a Seed of Grace preserved in the Heart: and this Grace in the darkest condition, it is the dawning of Light in the Soul.
Secondly, God causes a Light of Spiritual Joy and Comfort to arise upon his Saints. And truly, this Light of Spiritual Joy, it is somewhat of the glimmering of the Light of Heaven, this is some glimpse of the Light of Paradise. In Isa. 12. 1.—Thine Anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me. The Light of Divine Joy in the Soul, it is sweet and ravishing: it makes all dark Shadows flee away. Spiritual Joy, causes a Jubilation, and does as far exceed all earthly Comforts, as Heaven does Earth.
Thus you see, that in Midnight, in the darkest Cloud of Providence, God causes some Light or other to arise upon the Upright.