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A guide to godliness or a Treatise of a Christian life showing the dutiesA guide to godlynesse or a Treatise of a Christian life shewing the duties
A guide to godliness or a Treatise of a Christian life showing the duties wherein it consisteth, the helps enabling & the reasons persuading unto it the impediments hindering the practise of it, and the best means to remove them whereunto are added divers prayers and a treatise of carnal security by John Douname Bachelor in Divinity and minister of Gods Word.A guide to godlynesse or a Treatise of a Christian life shewing the duties wherein it consisteth, the helpes inabling & the reasons parswading vnto it ye impediments hindering ye practise of it, and the best meanes to remoue them whereunto are added diuers prayers and a treatise of carnall securitie by Iohn Douname Batcheler in Diuinitie and minister of Gods Word.
London: printed by Felix Kingstone and William Stansby for Ed, 1622
Book 2 › Chapter 4 › Section 3: §. Sect. 3 Of hope in God, what it is, and wherein it consisteth.
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§. Sect. 3 Of hope in God, what it is, and wherein it consisteth.
From this affiance in God, ariseth hope; for when knowing and believing God and his saving attributes, we trust in him for the accomplishment of all his gracious promises, then do we by hope expect the accomplishment of them, even when they are deferred with patience and comfort, knowing that God is immutable in his love, and most true of his Word: with which hope we are sustained in all afflictions, that we do not faint under their burden, seeing we hope for deliverance in Gods due time, are armed against all assaults of our spiritual enemies with this helmet of salvation, in expectation of assured victory, and stayed with this anchor in our Christian course, notwithstanding all the tempestuous storms and boisterous blasts of trials and tentations. The which anchor is not fastened on the fleeting and failing sands of our own worth, works, and merits, but upon the firm ground of Gods immutable love, mercy, goodness, power and truth, which will never fail those that rest upon them; according to that of the Psalmist, They that know thy Name, 1will put their trust in thee: for thou, Lord, hast not forsaken them that seek thee. And thus Abraham hoped against hope, being fully persuaded, that what 2God had promised, he was able also to perform. And the Apostle exhorteth us to hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering, because he is 3faithful that hath promised. The object of this hope, are future good things which God hath promised; as fruition of good, and freedom and deliverance from evil, which are not yet seen (for then there were no place ⟨p. 108⟩