39 Q necious fan: . fciences of Men a- flu6luating in perpetual doubts and labyrinths. But let us fee what they fay for it, firft diftinguithing between the certainty of Faith, and the certainty of Hope ; they allow the latter to Believers : And what manner of Hope is this ? Is it a fallible con - bEturai Hope only ? fuch a Spiders web may e found in an Hypocrite, who hath no lot or part in this 'matter : Or is it a true Divine Hope futable to a real Believer ? This even the School-man Durandus will confefs to be fuch, That non poteft non evenire, it cannot but come to pafs,this will not make afhsmed, Rom.5.5. by difappointing the Soul where it lodgeth. It is the Believers anchor, pure and ffedfaft, Heb. 6. is. Such as will never leave him to the courtefie of a wave or rock, for it enters in within the Veil, and is faftned in Heaven. Faith and Hope, which they here vainly diftin- guith,are coupled fo together in a Believer,that }lope cannot fluEtuate unlefs Faith do fo; nei- ther is Faith certain without an Hope congru- pus thereunto. Faith is the Hypoffafis or Sublift- ence of things hoped for,faith theApoftle,Heb i T. i.And Hope (as an Ancient hath it) to zñs vristirot, The very Blood of Faith. They fay in- deed, That the Promifes are lure and infalli- ble ; but withal, they put filch an uncertainty upon our Diîpcf tionc, as to evacuate ti,e very drift and fcope ofthePromifes ; which is,That Believers might have 'frog conflation FIeb, 6. 18. Streaming out from thofe two immu- table Things, The Word and Oath of God
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