bible verse darkness and then there was light

That God divided them from each other by distinguishing names. In heaven there is perpetual light, and no darkness in hell utter darkness, and no light: but in this world they are counter - changed, and we pass daily from one to another that we may learn to expect the like vicissitudes in the providence of God. God has thus divided between light and darkness, because he would daily mind us that this is a world of mixtures and changes. Tho' the darkness was now scattered by the light, yet it has its place, because it has its use for as the light of the morning befriends the business of the day, so the shadows of the evening befriend the repose of the night. That God divided the light from the darkness - So put them asunder as they could never be joined together: and yet he divided time between them, the day for light, and the night for darkness, in a constant succession. God saw the light, that it was good - 'Twas exactly as he designed it and it was fit to answer the end for which he designed it. That the light which God willed, he approved of.

That the light was made by the word of God's power He said, Let there be light - He willed it, and it was done there was light - Such a copy as exactly answered the original idea in the eternal mind.

That the first of all visible beings which God created was light, the great beauty and blessing of the universe: like the first - born, it doth, of all visible beings, most resemble its great parent in purity and power, brightness and beneficence. 1:3-5 We have here a farther account of the first day's work.

Bible verse darkness and then there was light