A Child of Light Walking in Darkness Chapters 1-3

First, the immediate light of his countenance, which is a clear,
evident beam and revelation of God's favour, immediately testifying
that we are his, which is called the sealing of the Spirit, received after
believing, Eph. 1:13; which David desired, and rejoiced in more than
in all worldly things, Ps. 4:6, 'Lord, lift up the light of thy
countenance;' in which, more or less, in some glimpses of it, some of
God's people have the privilege to walk with joy from day to day: Ps.
89:15, 'They shall walk in the light of thy countenance; in thy name
shall they rejoice all day.' And this is here utterly withdrawn; and it
may thus come to pass, that the soul, in regard of any sense or sight
of this, may be left in that case that Saul really was left in, 1 Sam.
28:15, 'God is departed from me, and answers me not, neither by
prophets nor by dreams;' though with this difference, that God was
really departed from Saul, but to these but in their own
apprehensions: yet so as, for aught they can see of him, God is
departed clean from them; answers them neither by prayer, nor by
word, nor by conference; they cannot get one good look from him.