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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	glory_n	grace_n	lord_n	4,464	5	3.7966	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65301	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.	Watson, Thomas, d. 1686.	1679 (1679)	Wing W1132; ESTC R38516	12,192	38

now a Morning Light shines upon the Righteous Unto the Upright there ariseth Light in the Darkness Lux oritur A Morning Light shines The Philosopher says Non dantur purae tenebrae When 't is Darkest when there 's Midnight God will cause Light some way or other to break forth to the Upright in Heart In Psal. 18. 28. The Lord will light my Candle As if David had said Though at present all my Comforts seem to be blown out and I am left in the dark yet the Lord will light my Candle he will make Light to arise in Obscurity There is a twofold Light that God causes to arise upon the Upright when they are in the dark There is 1. An Outward Light that he makes to shine 2. An Inward Light that he makes to shine 1. There is an Outward Light shines that is God does oftentimes cause a Light of Prosperity to arise upon his People that 's a Light in Darkness When God by his Providence alters the Face of things and causes Peace and Prosperity in the Tabernacles of the Righteous here 's Light arising in Darkness In Psal. 29. 3. When his Candle shined upon my Head What was this Candle It was nothing else but the Candle of Prosperity that shined upon him And in Psal. 132. 17. I have ordained a Lamp for mine Anointed That is Outward Blessings Gracious Prosperity shall shine as a Lamp upon David's Successor I have ordained a Lamp for mine Anointed I will give outward Glory in the Kingdom Here 's an outward Light The Lord can on a sudden alter the Scene of Providence and turn the shadow of Death into the Light of the Morning 2. God causes an Inward Light to arise upon the Upright when they are in the dark 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 My Brethren 't is only God can make it lightsome in a dark troubled Soul As when the Sun is set none can make it rise again but God So My Beloved when 't is Sun-set in the Soul and the Dew of Tears fall from the Eye none can make Day-light in the Soul but only God Ministers they may Preach Comfort to us but God only can make us feel Comfort Ministers they may bring a Cordial to us and set it by us but none but God can pour this Cordial into the Heart in Psal. 4. 7. Thou hast put Gladness in my Heart Before I come to the Application here 's a Question arises Why does God make Light to arise to his People in an hour of Darkness I answer for three Reasons 1. That God may hereby fulfil his Promise He has said it that he will enlighten his People In Isa. 42. 16. I will make Darkness Light before them God's Honour lies upon it to make good his Promise and to cause Light to arise to his People in Obscurity The Lord's Promise it is his Bond. When one has given Bond to another he cannot go back Though sometimes God's Promise may be long in Travail yet at last it brings forth Deliverance Two things in God never fail First His Compassions fail not Lam. 3. 22. 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 Knowledg when they are in the dark of Affliction ready to perish they feed them and they relieve them and their Almes 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 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 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 And so much briefly for the Doctrinal part I proceed now to the Application 1. By way of Information 2. By way of Consolation 1. Use of Information First By way of Information Here are several Inferences Inference 1. 1. See from this Text the Infinite Goodness of God to his Children in all cases that may fall out in this World whether Affliction or Desertion O the goodness of God! in