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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.
Secondly, His Faithfulness fails not, Psal. 82. 33. God may sometimes delay a Promise, but he will not deny his Promise: God may sometimes change his Promise, turn a Temporal Promise into a Spiritual, and so pay us in a better Coin, but will never break his Promise. He has said he will cause a Light to go before his People in all their Darkness.
2. God may cause Light and Joy to arise to his People, because they help to enlighten others. When other Christians are in the dark of Ignorance, they enlighten them with Knowledge; when they are in the dark of Affliction, ready to perish, they feed them, and they relieve them, and their Alms ⟨p. 17⟩minister Light of Joy and Comfort to the Poor; when they are in Desertion, why God's People, they speak a word of Comfort to their Hearts: They enlighten those that sit in Darkness, and therefore surely God will not let those want Light, who help to enlighten others; if they should come to be benighted with Sorrow, why God will be sure to spring in with some Light to them, who have given Light to others.
2. God may cause Light and Joy to arise to his People, because they help to enlighten others. When other Christians are in the dark of Ignorance, they enlighten them with Knowledg; when they are in the dark of Affliction, ready to perish, they feed them, and they relieve them, and their Almes ⟨p. 17⟩minister Light of Joy and Comfort to the Poor; when they are in Desertion, why God's People, they speak a word of Comfort to their Hearts: They enlighten those that sit in Darkness, and therefore surely God will not let those want Light, who help to enlighten others; if they should come to be benighted with Sorrow, why God will be sure to spring in with some Light to them, who have given Light to others.