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Meditation LXXXVII.
ON PUTTING OUT A LIGHT.
Off the Coast of France, June 8, 1758.
The place I dwell in being secluded from the solar ray, is lighted by a glimmering candle; and when that is extinguished, total darkness prevails at once. This puts me in mind of the more mournful situation of the natural man, the unrenewed soul, that stumbles in darkness, and walks in the midnight gloom.
While the saints walk in the rays of the Sun of righteousness, and rejoice in the light of his countenance, poor sinners dwell in the region and shadow of death. Let them boast of the glimmering light of reason; it can no more direct them about the affairs of their souls, the interests of eternity, than we can survey the midnight stars by the light of a candle. But faith beholds spiritual things, and takes steady views of eternal excellencies.
With what reluctance do we remember the wicked, who "caused their terror in the land of the living!" and how does their memory stench when dead, like the snuff of that extinguished candle! And as there is no light, no spiritual illumination in them, so at death they are driven from the light of life, the light of hope, and the light of the gospel, into the darkness of utter despair, and into the eternal storm and tempest of God's devouring wrath. This the last—but lamentable end of the wicked!
While the righteous, on the other hand, like the morning-sun, concealed by the disking clouds of worldly baseness and contempt, shine more and more unto the perfect day, grow from grace to grace, until, fixed in the skies of glory, they shine celestial suns. Let my light be spiritual; my happiness that which is hereafter; and my glory that which shall be revealed.
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