306 Chap. 5. An Expofitien upon the Book of J QB. Verf. 16. I'talme) work this hope. 1Fom. ç. 4. Tribulation worketb pa' tience, and patience experience, and experience hope, Graces have a, generation One from another, though all bave but one ge- neration from Chrifl at once. We have here the genealogy of hope in three defcents. Experience is the uext,or immediate parent of hope. So Ike poore bath hope. Thus it is begotten. a Cor. t. i©. God who bath delivered us from fo great a death, and cloth deliver, in him we trufl, that he will yet deliver Hr. An armed daring Go- liab,fhouldbe look'd uponas vanquitht alreacly,whcn we can but remember a vanquifht Lion and a Beare. Againe, Thepoore bath hope : Hedoth not fay,God having thus deftroyed the ungodly, & favedfhis own people from the (word, &c.uow theyhave l.iberty,now they have pcace,naw they have ahoundance of richesand profperity btat he;makes this the dine, ìroia theyhave-hope Whence note, That, Hope it agreater and better polyìfon unto the people of God here than all thegreat and goodtbings which they pffeffe, Put as much into their hands as you can,t'i ere is morethan that put in their hearts by hope. 7ks poor bath hope: he looks over all his pof e fions,and pitcheth upon expe&ation as his portion. The eftate which a believer bath in thepromifes,ismore than the eflate he bath in pcffefl"ion:Riches in thepromife,is better than riches in the theft. And fo the deliverances &prole&ions which are laid up, for the Saints in pronaifes ;are more than all the de- liverances and prote&ions received at.id ct;j Ìyed: There is no en- joyment but that in Heaven (where we (hall enjoy all that ever was promifed )fo good as hope, for what is promifed. Alexander an Heathen, had fuch a. notion about an earthly hape,which had no ground neither,but the great things his own ambition promi fed him, for when one teeing him give away all his Relent in FeofpeEla hac heritances,faid;what Sir,willyoumakeyour jelfe a Bogor, no (faith Dei providen- tia,erga pau. he)/will refcrve hope for my felfe, pares 5' bumf Ad iniquity floppeth ber mouth. tes, malign: et :rocendt/ludio- Here is theoppofite effect, iniq+ity the abaft-aft is put for the f retrahentfe- meant the f e flop their concrete, inr ty f or men witk ed nen , áe, n= , toter e mptce moutbei.And it is obferveable, that as before God made, them prava & ini- atc,tivcin their ownedcáru&ion ;fo here he males themwive in qua adverfus their owl e f lence ; he faith nos, God flopped) their mouths, but pies confrila they ®p thin- uw t moíotbesÿLTlat is, r6: Wick 4{ fccing. thofC won' 4gtun, derful.l
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