20. Thou makest darkness, and it is night. Drawing
down the blinds for us, he prepares our bedchamber that we may sleep. Were
there no darkness we should sigh for it, since we should find repose so much
more difficult if the weary day were never calmed into night. Let us see God’s
hand in the veiling of the sun, and never fear either natural or providential
darkness, since both are of the Lord’s own making. Wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth. Why should not the wild beast have his hour as
well as man? He has a service to perform; should he not also have his food?
Darkness is fitter for beasts than man; and those people are most brutish who
love darkness rather than light. When the darkness of ignorance broods over a
nation, then all sorts of superstitions, cruelties, and vices abound; the
Gospel, like the sunrising, soon clears the world of the open ravages of these
monsters, and they seek more congenial abodes. We see here the value of true
light, for we may be sure that where there is night there will also be wild
beasts to kill and to devour.
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