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1. The Light, ye know, doth è Caelo manare, it floweth and breaketh out from the Heavens: So doth Grace too; it is derived and sent down from Hea∣ven.
2. Light doth tenebras fugare, it doth dispel and drive away Darkness. So doth Grace too, dispel the darkness of Errour and Ignorance.
3. Light doth purge the Air from Mists and dark Fogs that choak it. So doth Grace purifie the Heart
with the beams of it, from the corrup∣tion of Sin with which it is choaked and defiled.
4. Light quickens the Seeds that are sown in the Earth, making them to spring and fructifie. So doth Grace al∣ways quicken the seed of God's Word when it is sown in our minds: If that be not there, it withers and dies, but Grace makes it prolifical and fruitful.
5. Light doth visum delectare, it plea∣seth the Eye-sight. Light is sweet, saith Solomon, &c. so Grace is pleasant to an Eye that is spiritually enlightned. Even the Eyes of God himself are delighted with such objects: For what be those Beauties and Ornaments of the Spouse, with which our Saviour Christ, in the Book of the Canticles, professeth to be so much affected and ravished, as en∣dowments of Grace in which the Spouse excelled?
6. Light doth Occulta manifestare, manifest things that are hid. In the Dark there is no judging of Colours, but the Light makes all things manifest. So doth the light of Grace, it doth ma∣nifest those things unto us, which be∣fore were hidden from us; especially
two sorts of things, Dei misericordiam, & nostram indigentiam: God's Mercies, and our own Wants. As for God's Mercies, without the light of Grace, we cannot judg of them as we should do: Either we take no notice of them at all; or we ascribe not the having them, to him from whom indeed we receive them. And as for our Wants, the more our Eyes are opened to see them, the more hath the light of Grace shined in∣to our Hearts.
7. Light doth Calorem generare; where Light is it doth beget heat: So doth Grace in us likewise, it begets in us an heat of Zeal and fervent Charity: It en∣lightens us not with Knowledg only, but warms us with Zeal also, to make us contend for God's Truth, and for his Glory.
The consideration hereof, should teach us to love Grace, and to hate Sin: We naturally hate Darkness, and love Light. Darkness is a thing horrid and hateful to Nature; but woful is the con∣dition of those that love Darkness ra∣ther than Light, John 3.19. it sheweth that their deeds are evil: And every one that doeth evil hateth the Light, neither
cometh to the Light, lest his deeds should be reproved: Like Owls and Bats, they shun the Light, for Light is a disco∣vering thing.
Acts 15.9.