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The saints treasury being sundry sermons preached in London /
The saints treasury being sundry sermons preached in London / by the late reverend and painful minister of the gospel, Jeremiah Burroughs.The saints treasury being sundry sermons preached in London / by the late reverend and painfull minister of the gospel, Jeremiah Burroughes.
London: printed by T.C. for John Wright, 1654
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
IN the latter end of the former chapter the Apostle exhorts to perseverance, and shows the great evil and danger of drawing back. Now, to the end this evil might be Prevented, he shows what it is that will deliver us from it. Whatever others do, or whatever temptations or afflictions we meet withal to draw us back, yet still the just shall live by faith: Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
IN the latter end of the former chapter the Apostle exhorts to perseverance, and shewes the great evill and danger of drawing back. Now, to the end this evill might be Prevented, he shewes what it is that will deliver us from it. Whatever others doe, or whatever temptations or afflictions we meet withall to draw us back, yet still the just shall live by faith: Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
In this Chapter (therefore) he falls upon this argument, to wit, the opening of the doctrine and practice of faith. And the words read are an excellent description of faith (not an exact definition of it) It is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. The substance; the word in the original is very full, the [Greek or Hebrew], it hath many significations: the fundamental, the foundation of things hoped for; the subsistence, the substantiality of things hoped for: those things that in themselves have no real present subsistence to us, but are things to come, and hoped for; yet faith gives them a present real substantial being to us. The substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. The word translated evidence, is a Logical term, and signifieth such a kind of conviction as is by way of dispute and clear demonstration, so as it must needs compel one to yield unto it; that is the propriety of the word, that although the objects of faith are things not seen, either by the eye of sense, or by the eye of reason, yet faith brings such a light with it, and makes them so demonstratively ⟨p. 64⟩clear, that it even forceth the soul to a belief of them: so that it hath the fullest conviction of them that possibly can be.