3. Heavenly, healing light now breaks in upon his soul. He _looks on him whom he had pierced_, and _God who out of darkness commanded light to shine, shineth in_ his _heart_. He _sees the light of the_ glorious love _of God, in the face of Jesus Christ_. He hath a divine _evidence of things not seen_ by sense, even of _the deep things of God_; more particularly of the love of God, of his pardoning love to him that believes in Jesus. Overpowered with the sight, his whole soul cries out, _My Lord, and my God_! For he sees all his iniquities laid on him, who _bare them in his own body on the tree_; he beholds the Lamb of God taking away his sins. How clearly now does he discern, that _God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself! Making him sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God through him!_ And that he himself is reconciled to God, by that blood of the covenant! 4. Here end both the guilt and power of sin. He can now say, _I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless I live: yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. And the life which I now live in the flesh_, even in this mortal body, _I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me_. Here end remorse and sorrow of heart, and the anguish of a wounded spirit. _God turneth his heaviness into joy_. He _made sore_, and now _his hands bind up_. Here ends also that bondage unto fear; for _his heart standeth fast, believing in the Lord_. He cannot fear any longer the wrath of God; for he knows it is now turned away from him, and looks upon him no more as an angry judge, but as a loving father. He cannot fear the devil, knowing he has _no power, except it be given him from above_. He fears not hell, being an heir of the kingdom of heaven; consequently, he has no fear of death; by reason whereof he was in time past, for so many years _subject to bondage_. Rather, knowing that _if the earthly house of this tabernacle be dissolved_, he _hath a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens: He groaneth earnestly, desiring to be cloathed upon with that house which is from heaven_. He groans to shake off this house of earth, that _mortality_ may be _swallowed up of life_: knowing that _God hath wrought him for the self same thing; who hath also given him the earnest of his Spirit_.