§ 5. (3.) This rest is peculiar to saints, belongs to no other of all the sons of men. If all Egypt had been light, the Israelites would not have had the less; but to enjoy that light alone, while their neighbors lived in thick darkness, must make them more sensible of their privilege. Distinguishing mercy affects more than any mercy. If Pharaoh had passed as safely as Israel, the Red Sea would have been less remembered. If the rest of the world had not been drowned, and the rest of Sodom and Gomorrah not burned, the saving of Noah had been no wonder, nor Lot's deliverance so much talked of. When one is enlightened, and another left in darkness; one reformed, and another by his lust enslaved; it makes the saints cry out, _Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?_[134] When the prophet is sent to one _widow_ only of all that _were in Israel_, and to _cleanse_ one _Naaman_ of all the _lepers_,[135] the mercy is more observable. That will sure be a day of passionate sense on both sides, when _there shall be two in one bed_, and _two in the field, the one taken, and the other left_.[136] The saints shall look down upon the burning lake, and in the sense of their own happiness, and in the approbation of God's just proceedings, they shall rejoice and sing, _Thou art righteous, O Lord, which wast, art, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus_.[137] [Footnote 134] John xiv, 22. [Footnote 135] Luke iv, 25-27. [Footnote 136] Luke xvii, 34, 36. [Footnote 137] Revelation xvi, 5.