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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.
3. God will cause Light to arise in Darkness to his People, either he will support them in Trouble, or deliver them out of Trouble, because God sees that they have great need of some dawnings of Light, they need some Morning-Star now to appear; they would faint away, they would be discouraged in serving God, if sometimes he did not turn the Shadow of Death into the Light of the Morning. Should the sick Patient always have purging Physic given him, why surely if he had no Cordials he would soon faint away. God knows our frame, he sees our Spirits would fail before him, if he did always let a dark Cloud dwell upon us; and ⟨p. 18⟩therefore, in Judgment he remembers Mercy, and causes the Day-Star of Comfort and Joy to spring up in a Gracious Soul. God will not suffer it always to be dark in the Hearts of his People, lest they should touch upon the Rock of Despair. The Musician, he will not stretch the Strings of his Viol too hard, left they should chance to break.
3. God will cause Light to arise in Darkness to his People, either he will support them in Trouble, or deliver them out of Trouble, because God sees that they have great need of some dawnings of Light, they need some Morning-Star now to appear; they would faint away, they would be discouraged in serving God, if sometimes he did not turn the Shadow of Death into the Light of the Morning. Should the sick Patient always have purging Physick given him, why surely if he had no Cordials he would soon faint away. God knows our frame, he sees our Spirits would fail before him, if he did always let a dark Cloud dwell upon us; and ⟨p. 18⟩therefore, in Judgment he remembers Mercy, and causes the Day-Star of Comfort and Joy to spring up in a Gracious Soul. God will not fuffer it always to be dark in the Hearts of his People, lest they should touch upon the Rock of Despair. The Musician, he will not stretch the Strings of his Viol too hard, left they should chance to break.
Thus you see why the wise God sees it fittest to cause Light to arise unto his People, in the midst of all their Clouds of Darkness.