Address — •
1. To those who are yet in darkness — [Long was the night with which David was enclosed, inso- much that he sometimes feared he should " one day perish by the hands of Saul :" yet at last the day dawned upon him, and " God shewed him light." Dark also were the dispensations
towards
» I Chron. xxix. 21.1 Kin. viii. 62, 63.
*Ps.l. 13, 14. &li. 16, 17. PQen. xxii. 13.
•> Rom. xii. 1. with Heb, xiii. 15.
towards our blessed Lord, till in his resurrection and ascension the true light was made to shine. Let not any of us then indulge desponding fears : let us know assuredly, that *' the counsel of God shall stand," and that *"' they who trust in him shall never be confounded." Indeed even " in our darkness the Lord will be a light unto us ;" and soon " our light shall rise in obscurity, and our darkness be as the noon- day."]
2. To those who have been " brought out of dark- ness into God's marvellous light" —
[Happy, happy ye, who behold a risen Saviour, and see the fulness which ye have in him 1 Ye may be sweetly assured, that, as he is able, so also he engaged, to *' save your souls to the ut- termost, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for you." But let this light have its proper influence upon your minds. " Walk as children of the light" and of the day : yea, " walk in the light, as he is in the light." If you do indeed " behold the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ," " it is God the Lord who hath sheivn it to you;" and " ye, as his peculiar people, are called to shew forth his praises '^." Do this then in the way before pre- scribed : give up yourselves wholly unto him j and take him as your only, your everlasting, portion.]
' 1 Pet. ii. 9.