A history of the work of redemption. Containing the outlines of a body of…

This lower world before the fall enjoyed noon-day light; the light of the knowledge of God▪ the light of his glory, and the light of his favour. But when man […] all this light was at once extinguished, and the world reduced back •g•in to total darkness; a worse darkness than that which was in the beginning of the world that we read of Gen. i.2 "And the earth was without form, and void, and darkness […] upon the •ace of the deep." This was a darkness a thousand times more remediless than that. Neither ⟨p. 22⟩man nor angels could find out any way whereby this darkness might be scattered. This darkness appeared in its blackness then, when Adam and his wife saw that they were naked, and •ewed fig leaves, and when they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden, and hid themselves among the trees of the garden; and when God first called them to an account, and said to Adam, What is this that thou hast done? "Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee, that thou shouldst not eat?" Then we may suppose that their hearts were filled with shame and terror. But these words of God, Gen. iii.15. were the first dawning of the light of the gospel after this darkness. Now first appeared some glimmering of light after this dismal darkness, which before this was without one glimpse of light, any beam of comfort, or any the least hope. It was an obscure revelation of the gospel; and was not made to Adam or Eve directly, but it was in what God said to the serpent. But yet it was very comprehensive, as might be easily shown, would it not take up too much time.

This lower world before the fall enjoyed noon-day light; the light of the knowledge of God▪ the l•ght of his glory, and the light of his favour. But when man 〈…〉 all this light was at once extinguished, and the world reduced back •gin to total darkness; a worse darkness than that which was in the beginning of the world that we read of