Reason. Because the light is the same, whereby we are directed, and whereby we are perfected; therefore the privation of perfection and happinesse followes the privation of direction.
Use. This may serve to admonish us, alwayes to walk in the light, as children of the light, if we desire to avoid utter darknesse.
Doctrine 6. Sinners are held in sinne and in their misery, as it were with bonds.
This is gathered from that: Chaines.
Reason. Because the sins themselves are the snares of the devill, 2 Timothy 2.last. Lamentations 1.14. There are other reasons given of this thing in the Analysis.
Vse. This may serve to admonish us, betimes to pray for deliverance from our sins, which then we shall obtaine, when we do flye unto Christ, who gives deliverance unto the Captives; Luke 4.18.
Doctrine 7. The extreamest punishment of sinners is deferred unto the last judgement of God.
Use. This may serve for instruction, that no man should please himselfe therein, that he suffers afflictions in this world, as if therefore he should escape free in the world to come, which is the miserable comfort of some men.
Verse 5. And spared not the old world, but saved Noah, the eighth person, a Preacher of righteousnesse, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly.