2. What use to be made of this twilight state.
Therefore, as God has set some things in broad daylight; as he has
given us some certain knowledge, though limited to a few things in comparison, probably as a taste of what
intellectual creatures are capable of to excite in us a desire and endeavour after a better state: so, in the greatest
part of our concernments, he has afforded us only the twilight, as I may so say, of probability; suitable, I presume,
to that state of mediocrity and probationership he has been pleased to place us in here; wherein, to check our
over-confidence and presumption, we might, by every day's experience, be made sensible of our short-sightedness
and liableness to error; the sense whereof might be a constant admonition to us, to spend the days of this our
pilgrimage with industry and care, in the search and following of that way which might lead us to a state of
greater perfection. It being highly rational to think, even were revelation silent in the case, that, as men employ
those talents God has given them here, they shall accordingly receive their rewards at the close of the day, when
their sun shall set and night shall put an end to their labours.