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Erbefiant,
Chap.6.
E
R:ICi:
our duty
of
patientexpe&ing things heavenly.
Fourthly,
it
will con
-
firme
us
to remember
experiences forepafled; the prefidents
of
good
hope,
how God
bath made
thole
partakers
of
their
hopes,
whom
he
fccmed to have
put out
of
his
fight;
David:
his
people
in
Babylan,&c.
So
to
thinks how fweete they
fhall be
to
us
when they come. Hope
when
it
commeth
is a
tree
of
life, Prov. 13.
i
a.
Deli.
Now
then
the
do&rine
of
this
is,
that
Chriftians,by
thegrace
of
hope,
mafl
ffrengthen
themfelves
in
their
conflicting
dayes,
If
we want good
things fpirituall, we muft walke
by
hope; looking to him,
who
bath
Paid,
we
(hall
want nothing
that
is
good.
if
in
adverfity,
we muft hope
to
have
a
good
iffue
out
of
it,
our
lives muft be patted
in
looking
for
our
full
deliverance which
(hall be
revealed
in
the laft time.
T
hus,PfaL
I
23.
our
eyes
are
to
thee
as the
eyes
of
a
handmaid
to
her
mïre/fe,
till
thou
fbew mercy enter: latike 2.
25.
Simeon
was
a
jufl man, looking
for
the
confolation
of
Ifrnel. Theis
Paulin
his
crof
cs
had
this
hope,Phil.3.
so.
But our
converfation
is
in heaven,
whence
we /coke
for
the
Saviour,
&c.
he
converted, looking for
his
everlaßing glory. This
is
our
anchor:
without
it our
lives
would
be toffed
with the billowes
and forges
of
our manifold remprations;efpecially
we
muft remember to waigh this
anchor
in a
Cafe
road: for the Papifts caft
it
on
the
lands,
even
on their
owne worthineffe,which maketh
their
head peece
as
ftrong
as a
helmet
of
browne paper.
Pfe
r.
But (alas) we are naked
Chriflians:
when we
are
in
trouble,
we are
ready to
with our
felves
dead,
hopeleffe voyces
paffe
from
us, we
ne-
ver looke
to
fee
it
otherwife,
and
our corne
(as we
fay)
is
(haken
with
every wind for want
of
this fupporter.
Yfe
2.
We
mutt be exhorted on the contrary
to
Waite
on
God
:
if
in
trou-
bles,
for
the
iffue;
if
in
want, for fupply;
if
he be
abfent, when
he (hall
returne.
This hope
is
a
Dormant
with
us,
we doe
not rooze
up
the
praßife
of
it
:
if
we
fend
a
Letter,
we looke till we receive
an
anfwer:
we can
fay, I
fhould heare from fuch
a
place, &c.
Who
looketh
till
God
returneth
an
anfwer
of
his
mind
which
he
bath often
felt
to
him
by prayer
e
If
one faith, I willbe with you to helpe
you, or
doe this
or that for
you, welooke we fhould
keepe
touch accordingly
:
if
one
fend
us
word
he
will
be
with
us,We
looke
and
prepare
till he
commeth:
but
if
God fpeake, who doth
wait
though
he forewarn
us
of
his
comming, who doth attend
e
Wee
would
bee
loth
to
tell an un-
truth, &c. but
thefe great
things,
of
nekleäing
faith and
hope,
we
make no confcience
of
:
when Mint
and
Cummin
mat
be given,
the
great things
of
the
law muff
not
be
forgotten.
Now
follows
the fword
of
the Spirit
;
fo cald becaufe it
is
put
in
Y
our
hands,
and
made mighty
through the
worke
of
this Spirit.
Firft, that
which
is
here anderffoed
by
the
Word
of
Godis,
whatfoever
out
of
the
written
Word
we
have
by
reading and hearing,
er what God
doth
2
teach
us
by
experience, agreeable
with
that
which
is
in
the
word
written.
Secondly,
for
the ufe,
it
is
either defenfive, warding the blowes
which
Satan
doth reach
us
(as
Chrift
ufed,
4.)
or
offenfive,
it
doth