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“Behold, I am Jesus Christ, whom the prophets testified shall come into the world.
And behold, I am the light and the life or the world.”
“‘Tis Lumen certum. Lamp-light as ’tis not glorious, so ’tis not deceitful though it be
but a faint and languishing light. Though it be but a limited and restrained light, yet it will
discover such objects as are within its own sphere with a sufficient certainty.”
Certainty ’tis so precious and desirable, as where God hath given it, ’tis to be kept
sacred and untouched; and men are to be thankful for these Candles of the Lord, for this
Lumen Certum, set up, not to mock and delude them, but to deal truly and faithfully with
them.”
Of the glory of God, Christ stated; “For the word of the Lord is truth, and whatsoever
is truth is light, and whatsoever is light is Spirit, even the Spirit of Jesus Christ.”
Charles W. Penrose stated:
"As we are unable ... to see anything of a physical nature without the
natural light which comes from the sun, so without the light that comes from
the Son of Righteousness, we are unable to see the things of God. The
Prophets who wrote the things contained in the Old Testament, and the
Apostles of Jesus Christ, who wrote the epistles, and other writings
contained in the New Testament, were blessed with the gift ... of the Holy
Ghost [as] ... a manifestation of the power that comes from God. As the light
that comes from the sun reveals through our natural eyes those objects
which we see around us, so the Holy Ghost coming from God opens up and
makes clear and plain the things of eternity, those things that are called
spiritual to our Heavenly Father."