the things revealed in the Word of God, and a conviction of the truth
and reality of them thence arising.

This spiritual light primarily consists in the former of these--viz.,
a real sense and apprehension of the divine excellency of things
revealed in the Word of God. A spiritual and saving conviction of the
truth and reality of these things arises from such a sight of their
divine excellency and glory; so that this conviction of their truth is
an effect and natural consequence of this sight of their divine glory.
There is therefore in this spiritual light,

1. A true sense of the divine and superlative excellency of the things
of religion; a real sense of the excellency of God and Jesus Christ,
and of the work of redemption, and the ways and works of God revealed
in the gospel. There is a divine and superlative glory in these
things; an excellency that is of a vastly higher kind, and more
sublime nature than in other things; a glory greatly distinguishing
them from all that is earthly and temporal. He that is spiritually
enlightened truly apprehends and sees it, or has a sense of it. He
does not merely rationally believe that God is glorious, but he has
a sense of the gloriousness of God in his heart. There is not only a
rational belief that is holy, and that holiness is a good thing, but
there is a sense of the loveliness of God's holiness. There is not
only a speculative judging that God is gracious, but a sense how
amiable God is upon that account, or a sense of the beauty of this
divine attribute.

There is a twofold understanding or knowledge of good that God has
made the mind of man capable of. The first, that which is merely
speculative and notional; as when a person only speculatively judges