:;°< raIP"'atre""SKO C H A P.2. Eaific/e to the Theffalonians. V B 8,t6 zuantum ex parte Dei, it bides with vs; the inter- ruptions which befell vs, iffues from our owne default. i Churling at Gods hand in our afffielions. lob 6. &c. 2 Securelie. `Pfalinc 3o.6,7. 3 Scandalous finites. Tfal. 51.12. 3 Yet I fay not but God remoues fenfible comfort. a For trial' of faith, who hut belieues what he feeles? Then is faith glorious, when againfl, or abode f nfe, it refls on naked promife of God. See c3fatth. 27.46. lob i 3. /5. z Sometimes for preuention. See z Cora 2.7. moll vfually for chaflifement. 4 As we are laid to be already faued, that is, eternally faued from our fins,and after a fort,now fec in poffeffìon of faluacion; becaufe wee haue now beginnings of eternal' life, and Z hope that makes not afhamed of the confummati- on ; fo now to haue receiued euerlafling a confolation. i In the beginnings. z In allured hope cf confummation. In end of life cxpe Ling all b teares to bee wiped from our eyes, and to enter into the ioy of our cillaffer: For whit'' caufe, perhaps, the mention of hope is fubioyned. The fecond gift ifiàingfrom Gods loue, and grilling vs of audience, is hope. They confider and handle it two w ayes. I As a paillon, where they deliuer vs the generali notion of it. z As a venue Theological'. As a pailìon, fo they point vs to : t The generali office or a61 of it, that is,expelfation. H56.1 r. t O. 2 The obict, which is thus circumfcribed. i Its bonum : euili things we feare, or grieue at, hope not for. 2 Ronum abfens: for what a man fees, or enioyes, why doeth bee yet hope for ? Rom.8.z4. ; eArrduum : not without difficulcie obtained. Things eafely compaflëd ; are as already enioyed , no branch of fortitude fpends it felfe in the acquiring. 4 Pop fibile: for who, but a foole, hopes for things ofineere im- pofiöilitie ? As a vertue Theological', fo its defcribed, the firme,or certaine expeaation of future beatitude arising from grace and precedent good workes. Too narrowly; for wee hope alfo for : i Deiiuerance p out 209 e
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