A Meditation Upon Two Lights in a Room by William Spurstowe (ca. 1666)   What an amicable, as well as amiable, thing is Light?  For, these two tapers which enlighten the same room, do not shine with a divided, or with a confounded, but with a united Light, as the optics do clearly demonstrate by the distinct shadows which they cast:  and yet the eye which is benefited by both of them, to a more full and perfect discerning of its objects, cannot difference the rays and strictures that flow from them, or assign, which is the Light that comes from the one, or from the other.  Such I have sometimes thought is the harmony between the natural light of Gifts, and the supernatural state of Grace, meeting in the same person; though they be both differing in the original, yet in the subject in which they are seated, they shine not with a divided, or a confounded, but with a united Light:  and, in their efflux and emanation so conspire, as that they greatly better him in whom they are conjoined, and cast a mutual luster also upon each other:  One being as the Gold which adorns the Temple, and the other as the Temple which sanctifies the Gold.  Let no man therefore despise the light of Gifts as needless to the perfection of a Christian; nor yet so magnify it as to be injurious to the light of Grace, no more than he would put out one of his eyes as useless because when he winks with the one, he can see as well with the other:  there may be a reason sometimes to shut one eye, but there can be none at any time for to extinguish it.  -----------------------  This article is taken from:  Spurstowe, William.  The Spiritual Chymist: or, Six Decads of Divine Meditations on Several Subjects. London: Philip Chetwind, 1666.  A PDF file of this book can be downloaded, free of charge, at http://www.ClassicChristianLibrary.com