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VER.
io.
Epheflanr,Chap.6.
,,,dnfw.
Not
to
be
moved
at
prcfent miferics, we mutt
firft
learnt
wifedome, not to
revolve them
fo
much,
as
to
be
di(maycd
by them.
He that
will drink
a
potion,
will not roule every
drop about
his
mouth;
and
he
that
will goe
thorough
afitiEtions, muff
not demurre too deep.
ly upon
them. Thus
Paul looked not at
things
feene,
but
unfeene.
The
end
of
the
croffe
mutt be eyed, or the
croffe will
not be
endured.
Yet
we
muff
not,
contrarily,
runupon foolifh lightneffe,
that
will
not
let the heart goe into
any
mourning
:
this
is
as
dangerous
a
worke,
as
defpaire
it
felfe. z.
We
muff
remember that hope
it-Imes
it felfe,
when things arehopeleffe.
Abraham
hoped
againft hope:
lob
13.
r3
If
he
kill
me, yet
will
I
truft
in
him_
Thirdly, when things
preffe
us
molt,
we
are neereft our deliverance
:
,um
duplicantur lateres,
von:
Mops.
Sixtly,hopes
have mifcaried, and therefore are, not
to be trufted
to, Phil.
I.
zs.
And
theft
all
through
faith obtained
a
good report,and
received
not the
promife,
Heb.
s
s.
To
the
firft, firft we may thus anfwer
:
rejelting the Papifts
opini-
on, that
it
was humane
credulity, not Chriftian hope,
we may fay,that
in fome
fort
it
was fulfilled,
though he
never was
freed
:
for, God
did
in his
firft audience give him deliverance from
Nero
for
a
feafon,where-
in
he might
have beene beneficiall
to the
Philippians.
Secondly,
hope
is
twofold
:
of
things heavenly, or things earthly;
now the latter may mille
of
us,and yet hope remaineth certarn,bccaufe
hope
fo
looketh for them,
as
faith layeth
hold
of
them
:
now
faith
doth not
apprehend them abfolutely,
but
fo farre
forth
as
they
!hall
be
good for
us.
For,
that
place
in
the
Hebrewes
proveth, that
all
things
beleeved and hoped for,
are
not prefently
received upon
death. It
fol-
loweth nottherefore, that they
are
fruftrate
:
we dying
(hall
not pre
-
fently have
the
things promifed concerning the
refurreEtion
of
the bo-
dy, yet our faith
and
hope cannot
mil earn'
in
it.
Now
fourthly
the
meaner,
whereby
we
may
flrengthen
our hope.
First, to confider
the
nature
of
it, and the promife annexed
to it; It
maketh not
afhamed,
it
(hall
berejoycing.
Prov. I
I.
18. The
hope
ofthe
righteous(ball
bedladneffe.
Secondly, the
worke
of
it
for
the prefent
:
it cloth
refre(h us, and
renew our
ftrength. Efly
4o.ult.
But
they that
waite on
the Lord,
(hall
renew
their ftrength, they
(hall
lift up
their
wings as
the Eagle,
they
(hall
rune
and
not
be weary, they
(hall walke and
not
faint
:
if
this fpirit
of
hope be
in
us, we
like a
blowne bladder
frnke
not
in our
diftreffes;
if
this be
downe,
we hang the wing
:
and daily ufe
of
it
fhould make
us
ftudioufly maintaine and increafe
it.
Thirdly, to
think
how
we doe
in
earthly things
:
we will
waive
uponthings uncertaine,
dead mens thooes,attend perfons early andlatefor
a
good
iffue in
force
fuite, buy reverfrons, and
refped them,
though never
like
to
fall
in
our time.
Who
is
great
like
our Gode Shall we not attend
his leifuree
What
is
precious like grace
e
Shall we
not
waste
on
it
e
Thus
fames
5.7.
from
that the
husbandman
doth
in earthly
things, doth
teach us'
our
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Anjw.`
Objec7.
B.