Chap. 3 t. An Expofition upon the Baoke of J *a. Vere 24. 591 _. vid inhibits his foule all other hopes but God (Pfal.6z..5.) Ifty joule Waite thou only upon god, for my expebbation iQ Borst As if he had fayd, O my foule, 1give thee this counfel, yea this charge, Hay this holy commandupon thee, doe not weite up:n nny creature (as making that thyhope) let thy expeflation be front, God alone. He urged.' the fame reftri&ion by way of affection in the next verle; He only is my rocke and my falvatien. As this Scripture fhewes the entireneffe of aSaints hope in Go.! ; fo that other is like unto it (Pfal. 73.25.) Whom have 1 in heaven but thee ? and there is none upon earth that 1 delire befides thee. As if he had fayd,I neyther knowofnor depend upon the helpe o any but God alone; and what he denycs as to perlons he dent eth al= fo as to things, to all things on this fideGod. Hope is the anchor ofthe foule, but this anchor muff not be caft as the Manner cad - eth his; who that his fhip may be flayed in a ftorme c3íts his anchor downward to take hold in the earth : We mull colt the anchor ofhope upwards and fatten it in heaven. So the Apofile directs (Heb.6. g.) Which hope we have ad an anchor of the foule, bothfare andfedfafi, andwhichentreth into that within the vaile, whither theforerunner to for to entred, even 7eftee, &c. Our hope mull enter intoheaven and fix there. The belt ofthe earth is not ground good enough, nor fore enough for our anchor hold. Whatfoever we make our hope, we make our God. and is there any thing on earth good enough to be our God ? Mofescorn - plaines to God bitterlyof the people of Ifrael (Exod. 32. 3 r. ) Oh this people havefinned agreatfin, and have made themgods'of gold. They indeed formally made a Golden calfe and worfhip. pad it ; this adof Idolatry was their fin, and their fmart ; In fo much that it was a laying among the ?ewes when ever they were preffed with any grievous affliâion ; This i.rfomewhat of the Gol- den calfe. That whichwas their fin groffely, is ina more fpiritu- ally finfull way the fin of thoufandsevery day,They makegods of gold,or a god ofgold. This is done as often as any man makesgold his hope ; and this the worldlyman doth dayly, or all his dayes. Yea fo far as any godly man is carryed out inordinately after Gold, he in fome degree makes Gold his hope, and in the fame degree his God. It is finfull to hope for gold immoderately,but to make gold our hope in the leaft degree is abominable. And X x x they
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