8. The statutes of the Lordare fight. His precepts and decrees are founded in righteousness, and are such as
are right or fitted to the right reason of man. As a physician gives the right
medicine, and a counselor the right advice, so does the Book of God. Rejoicingthe heart. Mark the progress; he who was converted was next made wise and
is now made happy; that truth which makes the heart right then gives joy to the
right heart. Free grace brings heart-joy. The commandment of the Lord is pure. No mixture of error
defiles it, no stain of sin pollutes it; it is the unadulterated milk, the
undiluted wine. Enlightening the eyes. Purging away by its own purity
the earthly grossness which mars the intellectual discernment; whether the eye
be dim with sorrow or with sin, the Scripture is a skillfull oculist, and makes
the eye clear and bright. Look at the sun and it puts out your eyes; look at
the more than sunlight of Revelation and it enlightens them. It is well again
to observe the gradation; the convert became a disciple and next a rejoicing
soul; he now obtains a discerning eye, and as a spiritual person discerns all
things, though he himself is discerned by no one.
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