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The saints anchor-hold, in all storms and tempests preached in sundry sermons, and published…
The saints anchor-hold, in all storms and tempests preached in sundry sermons, and published for the support and comfort of Gods people, in all times of trial / by John Davenport ...The saints anchor-hold, in all storms and tempests preached in sundry sermons, and published for the support and comfort of Gods people, in all times of tryal / by John Davenport ...
London: printed by W.L. for Geo. Hurlock, 1661
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Use 2. For Instruction, in three particulars: 1. How to bring and keep the object and this act, God and this hope together. 2. How to try, whether you hope in God aright, or not. 3. How to exercise this hope, in sundry cases, in which you may be called to the practice of it. This instruction is necessary, at all times, and especially, in these times, wherein we may have more necessitous use of this hope, then many do imagine. Therefore I shall the more studiously insist in clearing these particulars, speaking to the first, at this time, with the help of Christ.
Vse 2. For Instruction, in three particulars: 1. How to bring and keep the object and this act, God and this hope together. 2. How to try, whether you hope in God aright, or not. 3. How to exercise this hope, in sundry cases, in which you may be called to the practice of it. This instruction is necessary, at all times, and especially, in these times, wherein we may have more necessitous use of this hope, then many do imagine. Therefore I shall the more studiously insist in clearing these particulars, speaking to the first, at this time, with the help of Christ.
1. How to bring and keep the object ⟨p. 94⟩and act, God and this hope together. The holy Pen-man of the Epistle to the Hebrews, in Heb. 3. 6. compares the Church of God to an house; saying, whose house we are, if we hold fast the confidence, and rejoicing of hope firm to the end. As it is in the building of an house, so it must be in the building of this hope. In the building of an house, that it may be strong, and kept strong, three things are necessary: 1. That a strong foundation be well laid. 2. That the house be strongly built upon it. 3. That it be kept in due repair. So it must be, in this great business, whereof we now speak. 1. A strong foundation of hope must be well laid. 2. Our hope must be strongly built upon it. 3. We must be careful that our hope be continually kept in due repair. Of these three we shall speak distinctly, and shall endeavour to show how they are to be done. 1. For the first, God himself, as he makes himself and his will known unto us, by his written Word, is the only suitable object, and strong foundation,