) of reason by the attributes of the necessary and the universal; and by irradiation of this
lumen
or
shine
the understanding becomes a conclusive or logical faculty. As such it is
Ib. 206.
When Satan saith in thy heart, God will not pardon thy sins, nor be gracious unto thee, I pray (said Luther) how wilt thou then, as a poor sinner, raise up and comfort thyself, especially when other signs of God's wrath besides do beat upon thee, as sickness, poverty, &c. And that thy heart beginneth to preach and say, Behold, here thou livest in sickness, thou art poor and forsaken of every one, &c.