It is in his word that he shines, and makes it a directing and convincing light, to discover all things that concern his Church and himself, to be known by its own brightness.

How impertinent then is that question so much tossed by the Romish Church, "How know you the Scriptures (say they) to be the word of God, without the testimony of the Church ?" I would ask one of them again, How they can know that it is daylight, except some light a candle to let them see it?
They are little versed in Scripture that know not that it is frequently called light; and they are senseless that know not that light is seen and known by itself.
'If our Gospel be hid', says the Apostle, 'it is hid to them that perish': the god of this world having blinded their minds against the light of the glorious Gospel, no wonder if such stand in need of a testimony.

A blind man knows not that it is light at noon-day, but by report: but to those that have eyes, light is seen by itself.
On the true test of the Scriptures.

Oh! were it not for my manifold infirmities, whereby I am so all unlike the white-robed Leighton, I could almost conceit that my soul had been an emanation from his! So many and so remarkable are the coincidences, and these in parts of his works that I could not have seen--and so uniform the congruity of the whole.

As I read, I seem to myself to be only thinking my own thoughts over again, now in the same and now in a different order.
Ib.p.