1 fumption tohope for them , they beeing fo farm inferiour to the thing Os hoped for. Againe, it is faith andnot prefumption,to hope for faluation in and for the merits ofChrifl,thoughnot for our owne. So muchof the ground, thequalities follow. Secondly, the qualities whereby the foundneffe ofthis Chriflian ex It r'unaqudi. n cs.+hrcb are 'i peElation is defcerned, are fowre. T. It mull climbe aboue all humane fowra. fenceand resfon:for it is nowaiting withcarnal cics,but with the eies of faith, which the Apofliedefinethtobe the exeenceofthings not teens:and H`b'rt fight extinguifheth hope, which is of future good things : naymore, it mull hope often the cleane contrarie to that which it feeth , as Abraham acsa .rt. Iwas Paid tohops abomehope, when be taw nothing inhimfelfe, in Sarah, in the whole courfe of nature, but things which would haue dathedhis hopes ; euen fohere while within cur felues we can behold little bcfides our fiunes and infirmities while without our felues wee haue Efau ha- ting vs in his heart, and lfmael perfecuting vs with the tongue; while in this life we are compaffed with miferies , in the ende of this life with death , after this life with the graue andcorruption of it; all which teem to ecclipfe our hopes and cut them fhort ; yet now is the time that our hope mull beeworking, arid looking at things within thevaile, that as a Heb..ea. flrong (Life it may vphold vs in a godly courfe. 2. The fccond found qualitieof this hopeful' expeólation is, that it 2 mull be patient: for what wehopewe arpetl with patience,Rom.8.2 5. and fo ncceffarie is patiencevntohope, that the Apolllecalleth this wayting by the name ofpatience it felfe,2.Thcf .3.5.The Lord guide your hearts to thew.ytingfor of Chrrfl: that is, to endure in waiting for Chri(l. And r ?+t °+^Neis we haue needeofpatience to enioy the promifes : Abraham himfelfe in- °` %p"w ioycdnot the promife, till he had waited patiently, Heb.6.t5.welhall decciue our (clues if weTooke to be wrapt into hcauen, as Enoch and E lias were; teeing thepromifes of life gee with exception of che croffe, which will trie our patience. We knowe there is a turtle pramifed , wee may neither prefcribe it,nor ifwebeleeue make haft;but as the husband- na.se;g. than patiently expeéteth the fruites of the earth; much more fhould we pofleffe our foules inpaticnce , to reape our fruites and haruell in hcauen. The third qualitie is a fighing and longing after the thing hoped for: 3 the heart that waitethfor fuch things bathboth agricfe forthe abfence, and a groaningdelire after the prefence and pofieffion of them : Rom.8. 23. Weefish in oarfelnes,waiting for theadoption, even the redemption ofoar bodie. To this purpafe faith Salomon, that hope deferred, paieeththe Prout3.ta. heart. Thus (houldwebe ficke of loue, and neuer finde our (clues well and at cafe inany thing belowe, neuer chinke our felues happie in things Hha pre- EprflleofS. Patelle Tilt". Crtttr.s.t 3
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