He that makes a trade of sin, and doth evil presumptuously, loving and delighting in it, doth not love the light, nor, if he can avoid it, will come near it; for the light is that which makes things visible, and discovereth them. …Therefore [they] care not for the light, but choose the darkness for their deeds of darkness…[Those] delighting in a filthy conversation, hate Christ and his gospel; because that a discovering the right ways of God discovereth the crookedness of their ways….He who [pursues] …what is consonant to the will of God; he is not afraid to bring his notions and actions to the test of the Divine rule, published by him who is the true Light. For he desires that what he doth may be made manifest, both to himself and others, that they are wrought in, with, or according to, by, or through God…. Those works are said to be wrought in, with, by, or through God, which tend to the honor and glory of God as their end, and flow from him as their cause, which are done with his strength and assistance, and for his honor and glory. – Matthew Poole |