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On
the Excellency
of
the
Soul.
211
world,
as
well
as
the molt able or learned
(for
the
poorefl
bath
a
foul
to fave,
as
well
as
the richeft, and the-weakeíl,
as
well
as
the learnedft)
if
fuch a
one fhoald
fay
,
What
are thofe
things
that
are to
bee
rated
down
?
to
that
I
an-
Ewer,
Fail,
Such
hopes
as
are
not
Scripture- hopes,
if
they
bee
nor
Scripture hopes,
they muff
bee
rafed down;
Rom.
i
ç.
4.
whatfoever things
were
written aforetime,
were
written or
our
learning,
that
wee
through
patience
and
comfort
ofthe
Scripture might have
hope.
Wee
have hope through
patience
and
comfortof the
Scripture; how doth,
the
hopes
of
thofe
that (hall
bee faved arife
?
--
Why,
they
rife
thus, either by
reading,
or
hearing fomething out
of the Word
of God,
and
God darting
force
light
,
force
truths
into
their
fouls
through
his
Word,
they come
to
receive
it,
and
there
it
lies working
in
them, till at
length
their
fouls
relifh it
,
and they
talk
the fweetnefs
of
the
Word,
and
come
to
have
comfort
in
ir,
and
fo
through
patience and comfort
of the
Scriptures, their
hope
corns
to
bee
railed;
the Scripture in
raifing hopes,
firfl
it
works
patience,
it
ufually beats
down
the
foul
fiat,
and
fpeaks
hard
things
to
it,
and
the
foul
that
God
over
-
powers
to
himfelf,
it
is
willing to lye
under
the
power
of
the Scripture, and
bee,
patient,
notwithflanding the
Scripture
Both
reveal
fuch
hard
things,
and puts
it
upon
ne-
ver
fuch
hard
duties,
the
heart,
I
fay,
yeelds
to
ir,
and
at
length the
foul comes to
finde fweetnefs
out
of
the
Scrip
-
ture,
and
fo
hopes comes
to
bee railed, that
is,
the
foul fees
forne
eternal
truth
out
of
the
Word of God,
the truth of
GQd
himfelf that
is
eternal,
a
divine truth
that it
dares
ven-
ture'its
eternal
elate
upon
and upon this
it
doth raife its
hope;
icis able
togive
an
account from force place
of the
Scripture,
upon
what
r
rounds
it
doth hope.
-
--
Ï
hope
that
God
will
thew
mercy
to mee,
and lave my foul in
the
day
of
Chrifl; will force fay,
I
but what
ground have
you
for
your hopes
?
Now, if
your hopes
bee right,
then there
is
fomewhat
in this
Book
of God
to
bee (hewed
as
the ground
of this; and
indeed
you can have
but little
comfort
of
your
S
f
hopes,