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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	believe_v	faith_n	promise_n	1,407	5	7.2554	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23734	The government of the thoughts a prefatory discourse to The government of the tongue / by the author of The whole duty of man.	Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681.; Pakington, Dorothy Coventry, Lady, d. 1679.; Fell, John, 1625-1686.; Sterne, Richard, 1596?-1683.	1694 (1694)	Wing A1131; ESTC R16378	90,774	192

God has promised Remission of Sins Grace Glory and all things necessary for this present Life and the future and the instrumental Motive is justifying Faith from whence it springs for the Apostle tells you Heb. 11.1 Faith is the Substance of things hoped for The supream end God's Glory the subordinate our own Salvation and present Comfort whereby we may effectually offer up our Thankfulness to God to who begetteth us again to a lively hope in Christ 1 Pet. 1.3 8. St. John tells you in his first Epistle 3.3 That he which hath this Hope is purified and the Psalmist animates you saying It is an Expulsion of servile Fear Psal. 5.6.4.5 As also a dependance on God and casting all our Care upon him a Fortitude in bearing Afflictions and a Joy in Adversity The Subject of this Hope are God's Saints Faith and Hope accord in the Cause and God's Spirit giveth both and in the certainty as we believe so we hope All they differ in is this That Faith begetteth Hope whereby Faith hath the Preference Secondly Faith beholdeth the the verity of God's Promises Hope on the Goodness of them as Faith can entertain nothing but infallible Truth for its Object so Hope can enjoy nothing but Goodness Faith apprehendeth the Truth and Hope patiently expects the fulfilling of it Now the Object of this Hope hath four Qualifications Good Future Difficult and Possible 9. GOOD Whatsoever is contrary to it may be an object of Fear which has no coherence with this Hope Now whereas there is a real Good so there is an appearing or seeming one which being not sincere creates a vain or impious Hope as if a Man hopes for Ease Pleasure Riches and Honours These are not Verities nor good of themselves but in their use and so their hopes may be vain and of no duration A Man hopes a Revenge on his Enemy a Satisfaction of his Lusts or the like This Hope is impious and not durable and must in the end render a Man unhappy But if we hope for the Glory of God our Soul's Health and Comfort or what is really good in it self this is true Hope and shall attain to that heighth of Perfection tho to transitory Eyes it seems not to be durable as when we invocate for some Temporal Things which Omnipotency discerneth not to be agreéable to our Necessities or for him to grant as when Christ prayed that the Cup might pass from him and when Moses hoped to go into Canaan Christ was heard and Moses not defeated of his hope because in both God decreed that which was best and that is ever consistent with true Hope which gives not the Deity Prescriptions but confidently expecteth either what it hopeth or something better 10. FUTURE Rom. 8.24 25. Joy is of things Present or so represented as when we rejoice in Hope Rom. 12.12 Hope maketh that present by a Prepossession of that which is to come for Hope acts contrary to that which is present Difficult Such are all things Excellent perhaps deluded Hope makes it an easie step to Heaven and Salvation But they that indeed go that Path shall find it narrow and inviron'd with a World of Difficulties Lastly Possible That which is impossible to Carnal Reason may be hoped for because 't is possible to God therefore Abraham believed above Hope And we expect the Resurrection of the Dead and some things which sinful Men think possible are impossible 11. ALL things are possible to Omnipotence which he 'll perform and he will perform what he has Promised But some things he disannuls and so are impossible Omnipotency will not lie nor be unjust for that importeth Impotency and is a declining of his Attributes To hope that those Asseverations God hath pronounced concerning Supine Sinners shall not be accomplished is a Hope altogether vain and fruitless for it is impossible for the Divine Majesty to be untrue To be resolute in Sinning and yet to hope for Pardon is a frivolous Hope because it is impossible for God to be unjust a severe Lesson for Presumptuous Sinners who resolve to enjoy their Lusts and Pleasures glut themselves with Revenge and yet hope when this Life's Scene is ended the few Petitions of their Epilogue shall purchase favour 12. IF thou goest on in this Career thou wilt be guilty of a gross Absurdity for if thou resolvest to Sin and invocatest the Almighty to be Merciful thou dost in effect beseech God to unthrone himself of his Justice and to be indulgent to an Impenitent Sinner This being impossible it concerns thee to arise from sleep and shake off all vain and deluding Hopes that thou mayst fix on the true and never failing which is the Anchor of the Soul a laying hold on the Land of the Living it is the ease of Sorrows Grief's Asswager Affliction 's Comforter and Despair's Antidote Again it is Faith's Perspective the Nebo where we take a view of the Promised Rest and the Faithful Spy to discover the Holy-Land bringing us the Tastes from Escoll the Fruits of the Spirit the Possession which they hold who enjoy no more and yet are Rich in all Things CHAP. XVII Rules to govern our Hope IN order to this Governance endeavour to fortifie thy Mind with Resolution and Sobriety which will guide to Purity of Life For every one that hath this Hope purgeth himself as he is pure 1 John 3.3 A true Hope with a Resolution to persist in any known Sin is incompatible The Devout Man's Hope never faileth of which Seneca could say That Fortune hath often deserted the Innocent but good Hope never Hope to the End for the Perfection of that Virtue is Perseverance We must wait for the Adoption to wit the Redemption of our Body Rom. 8.23 Though deferred Hope disturbs the Heart Though it tarry wait for it shall surely come Hab. 2.3 What ever Tryals we undergo let us put on Job's Resolution Chap. 13.15 Though he stay me yet will I trust in him We belong to him that Redeemed us If we hold fast the Confidence and the rejoicing of the Hope firm unto the End Heb. 3.6 2. THOUGH through Humane Frailty thou sometimes art assaulted with Fear yet be confident and pursue the Psalmists Rule who expresses What time I am afraid I will trust in thee Psal. 56.3 Fear and Hope may inhabit together especially where the fear of the Lord doth not abrogate Faith's Confidence but Carnal Security Treasure up the Promises of God to that intent were they written and divulged That we through Patience and Comfort of the Scriptures might have hope Rom. 15.4 Fix not thy rest on this World or place thy Confidence on any thing in it it is but comparable to a broken Reed a slack Rope on the raging Sea or a false Friend in Adversity and like the Quick-Sands on which infatuated Builders lay their Foundations As Moses told Israel Ye are not come to your rest Deut. 12.9 3. ALL temporal Enjoyments are liable to Vicissitudes