Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
The supposition of a perpetual night, is a dismal gloomy Thought. O what will the Everlasting Darkness of the Infernal Prison be! The Sun by day enlightens the Earth, directs our motion, guides our way, governs our Travail, assists Conversation, awakens Industry, warms the Earth and Air, gives life, and vigour, and fruitfulness to all things under the Sun, and makes the whole Inferior Creation to rejoice. An Emblem of God’s universal Goodness, who is kind to all his Creatures. How admirable is its Lustre! how glorious is its Light! how loudly doth it proclaim his Power and Wisdom! who made this, and the other Lights of Heaven, his powerful Word, and preserves them hitherto by his daily Providence.
If God be now so glorious, contemplated in his works, considered in the lustre of the created Sun, viewed only through the Windows of Sense; how much more glorious will he appear hereafter, when we shall see him face to face, and nothing interpose betwixt us and his incomparable Light! If mine Eyes dazzle to look upon the meridian Sun, in what inaccessible Light must he dwell, who is the Father of Lights? If this lower World, the common receptacle of his Friends and Enemies, have so much of his Glory vouchsafed them by the Heavenly Bodies; O what a place will Heaven be, where shall be no Sun or Moon nor need of any, but the Glory of God shall lighten it, and the Lamb be the Light thereof?
For the reference, see John Shower on the sun reminding us of God’s uncreated Light.
If God be now so glorious, contemplated in his works, considered in the lustre of the created Sun, viewed only through the Windows of Sense; how much more glorious will he appear hereafter, when we shall see him face to face, and nothing interpose betwixt us and his incomparable Light! If mine Eyes dazzle to look upon the meridian Sun, in what inaccessible Light must he dwell, who is the Father of Lights? If this lower World, the common receptacle of his Friends and Enemies, have so much of his Glory vouchsafed them by the Heavenly Bodies; O what a place will Heaven be, where shall be no Sun or Moon nor need of any, but the Glory of God shall lighten it, and the Lamb be the Light thereof?
For the reference, see John Shower on the sun reminding us of God’s uncreated Light.