[ 1558] Christ the true Light.
THe Rabbines have a conceit concerning Noah,* 1.1 that whilest the window of the Ark was shut, he made use of some resplendent stone, by whose rayes, the objects of the sights presented themselves to the Organ of the eye, being, as it were, the light of some Lamp or Candle unto them. However the con∣jecture may be curious, yet true it is, that Christ is that stone, which albeit the builders refused, is now become the head of the corner, a bright shining stone,* 1.2 at whose presence the Moon is darkned, and the Stars withdraw their light; he is that lux illuminans, at whose approach the light of the Moon be∣comes as the light of the Sun; lux innata, that true light, that light of life; not lux modii, but lux mundi, that light of the World, in whom there is not so much as the least shadow of darknesse.