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Use. 5 The last use then, (for I am enforced to cut off many things) is for consolation, and encouragement against any misery that can befall us.

Vse. 5 The last use then, (for I am inforced to cut off many things) is for consolation, and encouragement aga•nst any misery that can befall us.

First, Here is comfort against the sight and sense of our own unworthiness; if a man were to expect heaven by way of merit, indeed (as the Papists teach and maintain) then should our hope be little enough of ever coming there. But our hope is grounded on the promise of God; for ye are all one in Christ Jesus, and if ye be Christs, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs by promise, Gal. 3.29.¹ What if a rich man will take up a rogue, and make him his heir; who can hinder him? or what if a Prince (that hath power to dispose of his crown) should bestow it upon a Peasant wh•re he lists, what shall let him? so wha• if it pleaseth God to take me and thee, and bestow upon us merely of his own good will, a crown of life, an heavenly inheritance? who shall hinder him? though it were presumption in any to have moved God in it, unless God should merely upon his own free love and good will have offered it.

First, Here is comfort against the sight and sense of our own unworthinesse; if a man were to expect heaven by way of merit, indeed (as the Papists teach and maintaine) then should our hope be little enough of ever comming there. But our hope is grounded on the promise of God; for ye are all one in Christ Iesus, and if yee be Christs, then are yee Abrahams seed, and heyres by promise,