That Out of the Children of the Night and of the Darkness, Children of the Light and of the Day are Made.

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That Out of the Children of the Night and of the Darkness, Children of the Light and of the Day are Made.
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Chapter XIV.—That Out of the Children of the Night and of the Darkness, Children of the Light and of the Day are Made.

15. And so say I too, O my God, where art Thou? Behold where Thou art! In Thee I breathe a little, when I pour out my soul by myself in the voice of joy and praise, the sound of him that keeps holy-day.¹²⁴¹

¹²⁴¹ Ibid. ver. 4.
And yet it is “cast down,” because it relapses and becomes a deep, or rather it feels that it is still a deep. Unto it doth my faith speak which Thou hast kindled to enlighten my feet in the night, “Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God;”¹²⁴²

¹²⁴² Ibid. ver. 5.
His “word is a lamp unto my feet.”¹²⁴³

¹²⁴³ Ps. cxix. 105.
Hope and endure until the night,—the mother of the wicked,—until the anger of the Lord be overpast,¹²⁴⁴

¹²⁴⁴ Job xiv. 13.
whereof we also were once children who were sometimes darkness,¹²⁴⁵

¹²⁴⁵ Eph. ii. 3; and v. 8.
the remains whereof we carry about us in our body, dead on account of sin,¹²⁴⁶

¹²⁴⁶ Rom. viii. 10.
“until the day break and the shadows flee away.”¹²⁴⁷

¹²⁴⁷ Cant. ii. 17.
“Hope thou in the Lord.” In the morning I shall stand in Thy presence, and contemplate Thee;¹²⁴⁸

¹²⁴⁸ Ps. v. 3.
I shall for ever confess unto Thee.¹²⁴⁹

¹²⁴⁹ Ps. xxx. 12.
In the morning I shall stand in Thy presence, and shall see “the health of my countenance,”¹²⁵⁰

¹²⁵⁰ Ps. xliii. 5.
my God, who also shall quicken our mortal bodies by the Spirit that dwelleth in us,¹²⁵¹

¹²⁵¹ Rom. viii. 11.
because in mercy He was borne over our inner darksome and floating deep. Whence we have in this pilgrimage received “an earnest”¹²⁵²

¹²⁵² 2 Cor. i. 22.
that we should now be light, whilst as yet we “are saved by hope,”¹²⁵³

¹²⁵³ Rom. viii. 24.
and are the children of light, and the children of the day,—not the children of the night nor of the darkness,¹²⁵⁴

¹²⁵⁴ Though of the light, we are not yet in the light; and though, in this grey dawn of the coming day, we have a foretaste of the vision that shall be, we cannot hope, as he says in Ps. v. 4, to “see Him as He is” until the darkness of sin be overpast.
which yet we have been.¹²⁵⁵

¹²⁵⁵ Eph. v. 8, and 1 Thess. v. 5.
Betwixt whom and us, in this as yet uncertain state of human knowledge, Thou only dividest, who provest our hearts¹²⁵⁶

¹²⁵⁶ Ps. vii. 9.
and callest the light day, and the darkness night.¹²⁵⁷

¹²⁵⁷ Gen. i. 5.
For who discerneth us but Thou? But what have we that we have not received of Thee?¹²⁵⁸

¹²⁵⁸ 1 Cor. iv. 7.
Out of the same lump vessels unto honour, of which others also are made to dishonour.¹²⁵⁹

¹²⁵⁹ Rom. ix. 21.

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