The .soule.r (macaldtng toChrift. I4I themfelves for loft, defpaire ofall helpe, yetthe anckor holdeth and here is the excellencie of an anckor in this particular,that when aman bath nothing to fuftaine him, yet commeth in this graceofhope, yetit may be better, and it will be otherwife,this upholdeth whennothingelfecan; it is not, but yet hopefaith, it will be, therefore cheare up that fainting foule of thine, that love God will enlarge, that delire Godwill quicken, that fearful! heart God will eftablifh, that dead heart God will quicken; thus the anckor ho!- deth 11111 from day today, hence hope is faid to be thenude ofthe foule, it nourifheth faith, and it feedeth faith, hope fetcheth the promife from farre, Lord thouhaft faid it, and therefore it can- not but be: Ibefeech you obferve, looke as it is with a man that cannot fee athingafarre off, yet with a profpeáive glaffe he may fee it, fohere, however eye cannot fee it,the heart cannotfeele it,yet hope waiteth (kill, expeéreth frill, as a man in a founding fit, he cannot fee and heare, yet there is Come life in the heart, and that bringeth him againe,fo when amans heart would faile,and he is overwhelmed with forrow and defpaire, thenyet the pulfeof hope beateth frill, there is this lifeof hope left frill in the heart ofaChri- ftian; but it is not fo with the wicked, their hopes arenot like the hopes of Gods fervants. It is a fine place, lob i I. laft verfe, Thehope ofche tvic- ked it like the giving up of the ghoft, that though a mancan lift up his head full high, and thinke he (hall be faved and goe to heaven, though hecar- rieth
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