sometimes sickness sometimes prosperity and sometimes adversity Here is change of weather sometimes we see the White Lilly of Peace sometimes again the Red Rose of a Bloody War appears Here is change of weather 3. Life it is a day for Labour The day it is the time for working Psal. 104.23 The Sun riseth and man goeth forth to his work Death is a sleeping time for the body Life is a working time a Christian hath no time to lie fallow Phil. 2.12 Work out your salvation with fear and trembling Work while it is day Iohn 9.4 Still there is some work to do either some sin to mortifie or some grace to exercise 4. And lastly If a day be once past you can never call that day again so when once this day of life is past and gone you cannot call it back Use Briefly 1. The thoughts of this that our lives is but a day may serve to cool the intemperate heat of our affection to earthly things we should not be much raised in the enjoyment of them nor much dejected in the want of them These under moon comforts they are not to be with us long only a few days Nay it is but a day Why then should we be too much taken with them Our life being so transient made up of a few flying Minutes it should much abate our affections to all things under the Sun. Abraham I read of him that he bought the possession of a burying place Gen. 49. v. 30. The longest possession we have here on Earth it is the possession of a burying place So much for the first particular a description of Life it is not measured by years but days nay it is shorter it is but a day 2. The second thing in the Text is the determination of Man's Life in these words My appointed time the days of my appointed time The Hebrew hath a double signification 1. It signifies the days of my Warfare to militate the days of my warfare Hence note this That a Christians Life here on Earth it is no other than a warfare 1 Tim. 1,18 That thou mayest war a good warfare It is not an easie life a life of sloth and pleasure it is a warfare all the days of my warfare A Christians Life it is a warfare in three respects 1. In respect of Hardship 2. Watchfulness 3. Combate First In respect of Hardships a Souldier he doth endure much hardship he hath not his soft bed nor his dainty fare but goes thorough many a tedious March such is a Christian's life 2 Tim. 2.3 Thou therefore indure hardship as a good Souldier of Iesus Christ. We must not be as Tertullian saith silken Christians but expect to wrestle with difficulties Secondly A Christians life is a warfare in respect of Watchfulness We must stand Sentinel and be ever upon our Guard. The Souldier gets up into the Watch-tower sends out his Scouts lest the Enemy should surprize him It was Christs watch-word Mark 13.37 I say unto you all Watch. A subtle Heart needs a watchful Eye Watch lest sin doth decoy you lest Satâ—n falls upon you when you are asleep on your Guard when you have been praying against sin then you must watch against temptation Thirdly A Christians life it is a warfare for Combate We all of us come into the world as into Field-battle we stand just as the Jews did Nehem. 4.17 Every one with one of his hands wrought in the work and in the other hand held a weapon Just such is our Military posture working and fighting in order to this holy warfare we must get our Spiritual Armour ready the Breastplate of Holiness which can never be shot thorow and having got this Armour and the Shield of Faith in our hands we must now give battle to our Spiritual Enemies 2 Tim. 4.7 I have fought the good fight of Faith yea and we must maintain a Combate with the flesh and that for an Enemy Satan To encourage us in this Warfare consider but these two things First We have a good Captain Jesus Christ he is called the Captain of our Salvation Heb. 2.10 Christ not only leads us in our march and gives us skill to fight but he gives us strength also A Captain he may give his Souldiers Armour but he cannot give them strength to fight but Christ doth Isa. 41.10 I will strengthen thee yea I will help thee Secondly To encourage us in this warfare against Sin and Satan having overcome our Ghostly Enemy then we shall have a glorious Recompence of Reward Henceforth is laid up for me a Crown of Righteousness 2 Tim. 4.8 A Crown it is not fit for every one a Crown it is not fit for every head only Princes Kings persons of Renown After our Combate with Sin and Satan God will call us out of the Field where the Bullets of Temptation did flie so fast and will give us a victorious Crown then no more Battle but there shall be Musick not the Drum and the Cannon but the Viol and the Harp shall sound Rev. 14.2 Use 2. Is Life a Warfare how unworthy and blameable are they who have no Spiritual Artillery nor do make out against their Spiritual Enemies they spend their time in dressing themselves but do not put on their holy Armour And rejoyce in the sound of the Organ They spend their days in mirth as if their lives were rather for Musick than for Battle I have read of one he would have no mans name written upon his Tomb but he who died manfully in War. God writes no mans name in the Book of Life but such as die in this holy War die in Battle fighting this good fight of Faith. Secondly Let us consider this word in the Text in the other signification The days of my appointed time my appointed time Hence observe this Doct. That God hath prefixt the just time and period of every mans Life Iob 14.5 His days are determined thou hast appointed the bounds that he cannot pass God who numbers ours hairs numbers our days He hath entred down in his Decree how long our lives shall last and we shall not live one hour nor minute beyond the time prefixt Therefore do not say If such a casualty had not happened such a friend had not died so soon Obj. But is it not said in Eccles. 7.16 Be not over-much wicked why shouldest thou die before thy time Ans. There is a general time of life and there is a limited time of life There is a general time in regard of the course of Nature and there is a limited time in regard of Gods Decree how long such a person shall live Now a man that dies young or dies a violent death he dies before his time in regard of the course of Nature but he doth not die before the time that God hath limited and appointed Use 1. First Use is to admonish us all to beware of adjourning and putting off our Repentance Our days they are certain to God
but they are uncertain to us The Lord knows how long our Glass will be running for ought we know there is but a few Sands more to run life may expire in an instant when our breath goes out we know not whether we shall draw it in again ' It is true Hezekiah had a Lease sealed him of fifteen years but we have no such Lease we are Tenants at will and may be turned out presently our time of life is known to God but not to us therefore take heed of procrastinating and delaying death may be sent to any of you this night with a Habeas Corpus God may say Give an account of your Stewardships Secondly Is the time of our life appointed and the number of our days set why then this should teach us courage for God be not fearful of doing your duty to appear for God to own his Cause in an Idolatrous generation to vindicate Gods Truth wherein his glory is so concerned so the Text saith Our time is appointed Men can take away our Liberty when they will they shall not touch a hair of our heads till Gods time is come This made our blessed Saviour so zealous for his Fathers Honour so sharp in his Reproof against sin Whence was Christ so couragious Iohn 8.20 For his hour was not yet come Christ knew full well that all his Enemies could not take away his life till the time was come which his Father had appointed This should make us like Athanasius that Bulwark of the Nation Thirdly The third thing in the Text is Iob's holy Resolution I will wait till my change come that is I will wait till death come Hence note this Doct. That death whenever it comes it makes a great change First This change that death will make it is a certain change there is no avoiding it Psal. 89.48 What man is he that lives and shall not see death Heb. 9.27 It is not strength it is not courage it is not any worldly grandure can exempt from death deaths Sword cuts asunder the Royal Scepter The godly they must die as well as others Though death doth not destroy the treasure of Grace yet death breaks the Vessel that this treasure is in Pliny he speaks of a golden Vine that is not subject to storms The body of a Saint when glorified shall be be like that golden Vine but now it is a withering Vine and is soon blasted by death We are not so sure to lie down in our beds as we are to lie down in our graves Secondly The change that death makes it is a visible change how strangely is the body metamorphosed at death that one scarce knows their friends they are so disfigured by death the Eyes hollow the Jaws fallen death carries away all the goodly spoil of beauty it changes a living body into a carkass Psal. 39.11 Thou makest the beauty to consume like a Moth. Take a body of the finest spinning the Lilly and the Purple white and ruddy when once death as a Moth gets into it it consumes all the luster and glory of it Death puts the body into a very frightful dress that nothing can fall in love with it but the Worms Thirdly The change that death makes it is often a very sudden change death steals upon some unawares as one I have read of was suddenly choaked with the kernel of a Grape What quick dispatch do several distempers make death oftentimes strikes and gives no warning Fourthly and lastly The change that death makes it is an unalterable change As the Tree falls so it lies to eternity Death is a change that puts us into an unchangeable condition Application First See what a different change death makes to the Righteous and to the Wicked both are changed at death but there is a vast difference First Death makes a dreadful change to the Wicked it is a Trap-door to let them down to Hell. The Wicked that live here in gallantry and splendor that are clothed in Purple and fare deliciously every day oh but when death comes they will find an alteration Death will throw the Wicked down from the top of the pinacle of their honour Rev. 18.22 I allude to it The voice of the Harper shall be heard no more in thee There is a River in America that runs in the day but in the night it is dried up so these pleasures that now run in the life-time in a full current at the night of death shall all be dried up Nor will the ungodly only lose their suggared things but here is their misery their Souls must be steeped in the flames of Hell Mark 9.44 where the Worm dies not Such a fire is kindled in Gods anger that no tears can quench it nor no time can finish it We read that the Servant under the Law if he had a hard Master yet at the seven years end there was a Jubilee a year of Release when the Servant might go off from him but in Hell torments there is no year of Jubilee Rev. 9.6 Men shall seek death and shall not find it If a spark of Gods anger falling into a mans Conscience be so full of torture in this life oh then how terrible will it be to have the fire of Gods wrath to lie in for ever Thus you see death will be a sad change to the unrighteous Therefore surely the very thoughts of death must needs be terrible to a wicked man. Secondly It will be a glorious change to all Righteous persons they shall have their fetters of sin knockt off and shall drink of the Rivers of pleasure Oh blessed change from a weary Pilgrimage to a blessed Paradice from Labour to Eternal Rest. In short death to a Child of God it is a friend Death it is a pale Horse to carry a Believer home to his Fathers house Death gives a full possession of glory There is a Freehold in Law and there is a Freehold in Deed. A Believer now hath a Freehold in Law that is he hath a Right to Heaven but at death he hath a Freehold in Deed He makes Entry of it and takes Possession Death pulls down this old Building this House of Clay and prepares for the Soul a better House a House not made with hands Oh blessed change to the Righteous and this may be comfort in the death of Christian friends whenever they are changed by death they are sure to change for the better they go instantly into a blessed Eternity Second Use is of Exhortation Does death make such a change a certain change a visible change and sometimes a sudden change and an unalterable change Let us all labour to be fitted for this great change It is a very sad thing as Iob saith to have the grave ready for us and we not ready for the grave When death surprizes the unprepared Soul what a condition will he be in he will say as those Oh death I pray thee let me be excused one day more one
and doth convey it by his Spirit So thirdly He doth maintain this peace by his daily Intercession What Saint alive doth not sometimes offend God and cause the fury of his anger to rise up in his face Now when the case is thus that we offend God and are ready to break his peace then Jesus Christ he stands up as an Intercessor and he speaks to God the Father on our behalf and it is his request that God would lay aside his anger and that he would smile upon his people again and therefore in Scripture Christ is called our Atonement to make peace and he is called our Advocate to purchase peace When we break our peace Christ he pleads our cause and makes up this peace again by his Intercession 1 Iohn c. 3. v. 7. To make some Application of this Use 1. First By way of Inference See then here to what Coast we must trade for this Pearl whither we must go for this spiritual peace that is our consolation in life and death Go to Christ for it That in me ye might have peace Saith Cyprian peace it is in Christ as sap is in the Root of the Vine as water is in the Spring That in meâ— ye might have peace saith Christ. This blessed peace that Christ gives it 's worth going to him for it is superiour to all other peace Peace in a Kingdom it is very desirable peace it is every ones Vote Peace it is the very quintessence of earthly blessings To sit quietly under our Vines and Figg-trees surely better a great deal better is the sounding of the Lute and Viol than the roaring of the Cannon See what a sweet promise God makes Isa. 2.4 He will break their Swords into Plowshares all shall be peace But what is this peace to the peace Christ gives to his People that is sacred This peace our Saviour gives it hath these two properties or these two qualifications to name no more First It is an Emboldening peace Secondly It is a Lasting peace First It is an Emboldening peace Friends that are at peace they use a kind of freedom and boldness one with another So we having peace thorow Christs Blood conveyed by his Spirit may be bold to make use of Gods Promises There is never a Promise in the Bible but a Believer may pluck a Leaf from and be at peace with God thorow Christ. We may now use a holy boldness in prayer We may come to God as Children to their Father Heb. 4.16 Let us come with boldness to the Throne of Grace God is our Father and he being at peace with us he will not deny any thing that may conduce to our real good This may make us come with boldness to the mercy Seat That 's the first It is an Emboldening peace Secondly Christs peace that he gives as it is an Emboldening peace so it is a Lasting peace Here is a peace that will hold For all Earthly peace to speak properly it is rather a truce than a peace a truce that is but for a small time and it ends Yea but this peace that Christ gives it is for ever Once in Christ and ever in Christ. Once justified and ever justified Here is a Lasting peace Isa. 54.10 The Covenant of my peace shall not be moved saith the Lord. The peace of a Believer it is but begun here in this life it is perfected in the Kingdom of Heaven Isa. 57.2 He shall enter into peace Here is a godly mans priviledge when he dies he dies in peace and as soon as ever he is dead he enters into peace he shall enter into peace that is he shall go to the Ierusalem above that City of peace Here the Saints peace it is but begun it is but in the seed there it shall be in the Flower Here it is but in its infancy there it shall be in its full growth That 's the first see to what Coast you must trade for this peace Go to Christ for it That in me ye might have peace Use 2. See what a sad condition all wicked men are in that live and die in their sins They have nothing to do with peace What! Shall they have peace that make War with Heaven persecute Christ in his Members Shall they have peace that deride and grieve the Spirit of God whose very Office it is to drop peace into the Conscience What a sinner to have peace 2 Kings 9.22 What peace so long as the Whoredoms of thy Mother Jezabel and her Witchcrafts are so many A wicked man is a worker of iniquity As a man works at his shop so he works at the trade of sin and what hath he to do with peace and how deplorable is his case What if a Foreign Enemy should come sinners would be in a storm and have no where to put in for Harbour It is a very sad thing to be in Sauls condition the Philistines upon him and God departed It is a very sad thing to have fightings without and fears within to have the Bullets shooting against the Ship and the Ship leaking within Isa. 57.21 There is no peace to the wicked saith my God And if God saith it he knows it to be true The wicked perhaps they may delude themselves and presume that though they go on in sin yet they shall have peace but to undeceive them turn to that one Scripture Deut. 29.19 And it come to pass when he heareth the words of this curse that he blesses himself in his heart saying I shall have peace though I walk in the imagination of mine heart Verse 20. The Lord will not spare him but then the anger of the Lord and his Iealousie shall smoke against that man. One may as well think to suck health out of Poison as to suck peace out of Sin. Sinners they may be quiet or rather secure for the present but as 2 Sam. 26. it will be bitterness in the latter end Guilt will sooner or later raise a storm saith Chrysostom Sin will conjure up the Winds and Storms into the Conscience I have sometimes thought it is with sin as it is with poison there are some sorts of poison that will lie a great while in the body and not work but at last it does wring and torture the bowels a fit resemblance of sin Men they drink this poison and they may be quiet a while but at last especially at death then it begins to work and then the poison begins to touch the Conscience The great God of Heaven and Earth hath set up his Standard and proclaimed open War against every impenitent sinner and it will not be long if men go on in sin before Gods Cannon Bullets will begin to flie Gods wrath may seem to be like a sleeping Lion but this Lion will awake and roar and tear his prey I will say but this I confess God may bear long with wicked men let them alone he may bear long with them in respect of punishment when
SEVEN SERMONS ON Several Select Subjects PREACHED BY Mr. Tho. Watson sometimes Minister of the Gospel at St. Stephen Walbrook London With Allowance LONDON Printed in the Year 1689. THE PUBLISHER TO THE READER Christian Reader HAving had these Sermons by me for a considerable time and finding them of singular Advantage to all who mind the work of their Salvation in earnest I thought I could not sufficiently discharge that Duty I owe to my fellow Christians if I did not contribute what I could to the good of others and therefore I have made them of Publick use 'T were a Presumption in me to offer to launch out upon the Praises of the Worthy Preacher of them as if he needed Encomiums from such as I am to recommend his Works to the World since his Name is so savoury among all those that either heard him Preach read his Writings or were acquainted with his Exemplary Life and Conversation he having with that great Apostle taken sufficent care that while he Preached to others he might not be a cast away himself that 't will be sufficient to recommend them to the perusal of all serious Christians that they are his Those that are only for a quaint polite Discourse may sute themselves where they think best but such as are for the plain Truths of the Gospel and desire to drink in the sincere Milk of the Word of God may find great profit by this Book Those Ministers whose only delight it is to make Elegant Discourses busking them up with a vain flourish of Words as if the plain Truths of the Gospel were not palatable but needed some correctives to render them more grateful to mens appetites and those who perplex their Hearers with Intricate Philosophical Notions seem more to hunt after Popular applause than sincerely to endeavour the Conversion and Salvation of Souls But those who design faithfully to discharge that great Trust committed to them by their Lord and Master will be sure to shun both these and to deliver the Truths of the Gospel in as plain and homely a dress as may be that the way of Salvation may be set forth to the meanest Capacities Like the famous Gregory Nazianzen who tho he was Master of as much Learning as any in his day yet was very plain in his Preaching and a Godly laborious Preacher here sometimes since with the Lord who when he had written his Sermon used to read it over to his Servants and if any thing in it transcended their Capacities altered it and made it so plain that he was sure nothing in it could surmount the Understandings of the meanest of his Hearers And all that ever heard the worthy Author or read any of his Sermons can sufficiently testifie how well he acquitted himself in this point And those that have not may fully be convinced of it by reading these Sermons which they will find as plain and obvious as can be desired delivered in as few words as possible so as to leave out nothing neeessary in order to explaining the true meaning of the Text. Were this golden Rule generally observed much more Fruit might be expected by the preaching of the Gospel than now is and those who desire to be most serviceable in their Generation would not be misrepresented as Canters by men that speak evil of things they understand not The Subject matter of these Sermons are Truths of very great use in Christians Practice whatever their case or condition be So that there are few Spiritual Diseases but Remedies are here set down for them viz. those who are groaning under the Cross Comforts are prescribed to them those who are secure are awakened those that are worldly Weaning Considerations are here proposed to them and those who are under comfortable Influences of the Spirit Directions are given them how to continue them It cannot be expected since the Godly Preacher himself had not the perusal of them but that those that are too Nice and Censorious may espy some expressions in them that might have been better worded And therefore I hope that they will be so far from laying it on the Worthy Author that they will even excuse it in me since through a desire I had for the publick good I rather chose to incurr the censures of some men in publishing these Sermons than out of a sullen Modesty suppress that which might tend so much to the Advancement of Holiness Which that it may be the blessed fruit of this and all other Works of this Nature is and shall be the Hearty Prayers of c. ERRATA Page 27. line 4. for Disabling read Disciplining p. 30. l. 18. Disabling for r. Disciplining SERMON I. Job 14.14 All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come THIS Book relates the History of Iob's sufferings he was a tall Cedar in grace yet this Cedar grew in a Valley of Tears Religion gives no Charter of Exemption from trouble Iob's tryals were so sharp that he began to grow weary of life and was willing to have a Writ of Ease to have his pass and be gone Iob 14.13 Oh that thou wouldest hide me in the grave This holy man was much afflicted in his meditations of his latter end He walked among the Tombs and walked into his Grave before it was digged and by frequent thoughts laboured to make death familiar to him All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come The Text is a large Field I shall only as I pass along pluck some few ears of corn In the words are these three general parts observable 1. A description of Life All my days 2. The determination of Life My appointed time 3. A holy Resolution I will wait till my change come I begin with the first First Here is a description of Life All the days Doct. Job doth not measure his life by years but by days Nay he calls life a day in verse 6. of this chapter Mans life is very much resembled to a day in three or four respects 1. Life is like a day for the shortness of it men dream of a long life saith Austin Men they do think of such a thing as an earthly Eternity but it is a short day Infancy that is day break Youth that is Sun rising Full growth that is the Sun in its Meridian Old age is Sun setting Sickness is Evening and then comes the night of Death Life it is a day and is it so short but a day why do we then rather lose time than live it 2. Life is like a day for the vicissitudes that are in it A day hath much alteration and change of weather the Morning that shews clear and bright at Noon black Clouds and Rain one part of the day is calm and serene the other part it is blusterous and windy Such is our life it is like a day what change of weather is there in Man's life What sudden alterations fall out sometimes health
God by holy trust Trust him where you cannot trace him Trust God for protection in this life and Salvation in the other life My Beloved trusting in God it is a Receit for all diseases Faith it is the cure Doth the Orphan trust himself and his Estate in the hands of his Guardian Doth the Patient trust his life in the hands of his Physician And shall not we trust our Souls in Gods hand 2 Sam. 22.31 He is a Buckler to all them that trust in him If ever we would get mastery of our fears and disquiets let us captivate carnal reason and advance faith So then you shall not be afraid of eâ—il tydings for the heart will be fixed trusting in the Lord. SERMON VI. This Sermon was Preached Novemb. 17. 1678. Psalm 112.4 Unto the upright there ariseth light in darkness CHrysostom calls the Scriptures a Spiritual Paradice The Book of Psalms is placed in the midst of this Paradice Davids Psalms are not only for delight but for benefit Like those Trees of the Sanctuary in Ezekiel which were both for food and for medicine The Psalms are commensurate and exactly fitted to every Christians condition If his affections be frozen here he may fetch fire if he be weak in grace here he may fetch Armour if he be ready to faint here he may fetch Cordials Among other Divine consolations this Text is none of the least Unto the upright there ariseth light in darkness which words are calculated for the comfort of Gods Church in all Ages This Text is like Israels Pillar of Fire which gave light in the Wilderness Or this is like the Mariners Lanthorn to serve to give light in a dark night To the upright there ariseth light in darkness Give me leave a little to explain the words then I shall come to the Proposition To the upright Who are meant here by the upright Answer The Hebrew word for upright signifies plainness of heart The upright man he is without blushing or fraud he is one in whose spirit there is no guile Psal. 32.2 He that is upright his heart and his tongue go together as a well made Dial goes exactly by the Sun. The words following here in the Text may serve for a short paraphrase to shew us who this upright man is he is gracious full of compassion and righteous 1. He is gracious that implies his holiness 2. He is full of compassion that implies his charitableness 3. He is righteous that implies his justness The upright man he is gracious therefore he fears God he is full of compassion therefore he feeds the poor he is righteous therefore he doth to others as he would have them to do to him The upright man is one that acts from a right principle and that is faith by a right rule and that 's the Word of God to a right end and that 's the glory of God this is the downright upright man. The second thing in the Text is There ariseth light to the upright man by light is here meant metaphorically viz. for comfort or joy Esth. 8.16 The Jews had light and gladness and joy but by light is meant gladness The light when it doth spring it doth very much relieve Joy is to the heart as light is to the eye very exhilarating and refreshing Thirdly Light ariseth in darkness By darkness is meant trouble any thing that doth disquiet either the body or the mind Trouble is darkness Isa. 8.22 Look unto the earth and behold trouble and darkness Psa. 107.10 Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death As darkness is very disconsolate and affrighting so trouble where it comes it makes every thing look like the terrours of the night The Observation is this Doct. That when the condition of Gods people is darkness God causeth a light to shine unto them To the upright there ariseth light in darkness Here are two branches of the Proposition First That the upright such whom God loves they have their night Secondly That a morning light ariseth to them in the midst of all their darkness First The upright they have their night it may be a very dark season Godliness doth not exempt them from suffering they may have a night of affliction a cloud may set upon their Names and Estates God may lay an Imbargo upon all their outward comforts Ruth 1.20 Secondly The people of God they may have a night of desertion God may withdraw the smiling beams of his favour and then it is night with them indeed Iob 6.4 The Arrows of the Almighty are within me the poison thereof drinks up my spirits It alludes saith Grotius to the Persians who in their War do dip their Arrows in poison to make their wounds more deadly Thus God sometimes shoots the poisonous Arrows of desertion at the godly then they are in the dark they are benighted tho' God hath the heart of a Father yet sometimes he hath the look of an Enemy he may cause darkness in the Soul and shut up the beams of spiritual comfort First He doth this that he may the more quicken the exercise of grace for prayer may sometimes act highest in the hour of desertion Ionah 2.4 I said I was cast out of thy sight yet will I look towards thy holy Temple Faith and Patience like two Stars shine most bright in the night of desertion We are taken with the comfort but God is more taken with the acting of our graces Secondly The Lord may cause a dark cloud to be upon the righteous a cloud of desertion that he may hereby awaken and stir up in his people a spirit of prayer that now they may cry mightily to God that now they may stir up themselves to take hold on God by prayer Sometimes a Father hides his face to make the Child cry after him the more so God may hide his face in a cloud of desertion that his Children may cry the more after him Psal. 140.7 Oh hide not thy face from me Desertion will make one pray if any thing will. Desertion it is a short Hell. Ionah calls the Whales belly the belly of Hell because he was deserted there and if ever he would pray sure it is now that he might get out of that Hell Ionah 2.2 Out of the belly of Hell I cryed unto thee and thou heardest my voice That 's the first The godly they may have their night The second part of the Proposition That a morning light doth arise in the righteous in all their darkness To the upright there ariseth light in darkness Psal. 18.28 The Lord will light my Candle as if David had said My comforts at present they seem to be blown out and I am in the dark but the Lord will light my Candle and will cause light to arise There is a twofold light that God causes to arise in his people in the dark First An outward light Secondly An inward light First An outward light shines that is God doth oftentimes