Behold now, my Soul, with Wonder and Gratitude this glorious Lamp, and Light of Heaven, the Sun, and by seeing the want of it before, see its infinite Value now, and prize it, as if this Day it were first given unto thee ; at least let this Day be the time in which thou art thankful for that Gift ; for it is highly becoming, on the Day it was created, to be more especially thankful for it.

This glorious Light of the Sun is the very Fountain of Light, whose Splendor is so great, that in coming into this World it obscures all Stars, they being in its Presence as if they were not.

Behold its Continuation, and Perpetuity in its Course, which is so constant that it alters not. See its Bigness and Magnitude, being, as some Philosophers have calculated, several thousand times larger than the Earth.

But beyond its Magnitude, it is most glorious in its Effects ; in illuminating the whole World, in communicating its Light with great Liberality in a Moment, and without any Resistance. It ruleth like a King of the Day, which Day it maketh with its swift Motion from East to West.

Consider its marvellous Efficacy in Heat, casting forth its Beams like Fire, and withal that it hath Virtue to cause such Influences, as do quicken and make the Plants, and other living things, to grow, helping all things both in their Life and Conversation.

It illuminateth all things, and discovereth the Beauty and Glory of the World. It causeth Springs, Rivers, Clouds, Exhalations, Rain and Dew. It digesteth Minerals, quickeneth Vegetables, adorneth Gardens, animateth living Creatures, and makes Men able to live and enjoy them all.

It's an universal Blessing which irradiates all things here below, infinitely more glorious to the Eye of the Understanding than the Eye of the Body.

As God, by reducing Light into one Body, made the Sun, so by the Beams of the Sun he gives Lustre to the Moon. By rarifying the Waters into celestial Exhalations, he made the Firmament ; and the Sun raising Vapours by its Heat and Light, by those Vapours were the Skies created.