and labour to the utmost of our power, to hasten it forward. We should even now anticipate it ; yea, we will anticipate it : " O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the Lord !" Let us walk in the light,
L Of his truth —
His truth now shines in its meridian splendour —
[" The darkness is indeed past ; and the true light now shineth*." "The day-star has arisen^:" "the day-spring from on high hath visited us*^:" "the Sun of Righteousness*^" shineth forth in his brightness : and the way of salvation through a crucified Redeemer is now so plain, that " no way- faring man, though a fool, can err therein*^ " " On the
face of Moses there was a veil, that they who received the law should not see its full import : but if the Gospel be hid, it is from those only whom the god of this world hath blinded ; " since " we may all with open (that is, unveiled) face behold as in a mirror the glory of the Lord^" ]
Let us then walk in it —
[Having the light, we should " believe in the light, that we may be the children of lights." We should embrace with all thankfulness the way of salvation revealed in the Gospel. We should " come to Christ,''' as the appointed Saviour of a ruined world '^ : we should " look to hivi" as dying upon the cross for us*: we should " build upon him, as our only foun- dation^;" and " cleave unto him with full purpose of heart^ ; " and "determine to know none but him"," and to "glory in
nothing but the cross of Christ"" "Arise then, and he
enlightened, for the light is come ; and the glory of the Lord is risen upon you"."]
Whilst confiding in God as reconciled to us by the blood of the cross, we should endeavour to walk in the light,
IL Of his countenance —
This is the privilege of a true believer —
[So it is declared to be, by one who experienced it richly in his own soul p. God presents himself to us in the Gospel
a 1 John ii. 8. ^2 Pet. i. 19. <= Luke i. 78, 79.
d Mai. iv. 2. e Isai. xxxv. 8. f 2 Cor. iii. 13 — 18.
g John xii. 35, 36. "^ Matt. xi. 28. » Isai. xlv. 22.
^ 1 Cor. iii. 11. > Acts xi. 23. «> 1 Cor. ii. 2.
n Gal. vi. 14. 0 Isai. Ix. 1. The marginal reading. V Ps. Ixxxix. 15.