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A37208	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 ...	Davenport, John, 1597-1670.	1661 (1661)	Wing D366; ESTC R7130	85,681	240

they shall mount up upon wings as Eagles they shall run and not be weary and they shall walk and not faint Isa 40. 31. The second case whereon believers are called to exercise this hope in their personal concernments is in reference to the time past the seeming frustration and disappointment of their former expectations For having prayed and waited for the good desired yet they have not o●tained it And many when they have given up their names unto Christ looked for peace prosperity and good dayes but find troubles crosses and afflictions of sundry kinds this much disquieteth and sometimes discourageth their spirits Hence they are apt to complain with the Church in Jer. 8. 15. We looked for peace but no good came and for a time of health and behold trouble and to conclude as they did in Isa 49. 14. Zion said the Lord hath forsaken me and my Lord hath forgotten me In this case that may be made for a right exercise of hoping in God I shall distinguish the subjects of it 1. There are some whom God forsakes really 1. Such as forsake God If ye forsake him he will forsake you 2 Chron. 15. 2. This is the condition of all Apostates that depart from the rules of Gods worship and the Churches of the Saints embracing and following worldly policies and advantages 2. Such as seem to seek God but rest in outward performances without inward sincerity and spiritualnesse and trust in their parts and gifts and duties not in Christ for acceptance with God This is the condition of all hypocrites who sin and pray and pray and sin without true repentance yet think to be accepted of God for the things they do in religion outwardly of such the Lord saith in Hos 5. 6. They shall go with their flock●● and with their Heards to seek the Lord but they shall not find him he hath with-drawn himself from them 3. Such as abuse the mercies they have received and yet presume that mercies shall be still continued and added though they go on in their impenitency This is the condition of all obstinate hard-hearted sinners These may receive their doom from that which the Lord denounced against Israel in Hos 1. 6. Call her name Lo-ruhamah for I will not adde any more to shew mercy to them As if 〈◊〉 had said They have received many mercies from me but they abuse the● all and presume that they shall receive more mercies from me but 〈◊〉 shall not be so I will not adde any more Of all these and the like the Apostle saith they are without Christ without God and without hope Eph. 2. 12. Therefore I have no more to say to them in this point 2. There are others whom God doth not forsake really but onely seemingly and that but in some respect and but for a time And that he is present with them graciously when they think he hath forsaken them appeareth by his efficacy in them 1. That he quickens them to seek him in the use of all means Psal 9. 10. For thou Lord hast not forsaken them that seek thee 2. That they seek him as their portion as their chief good without injoyment of whom nothing will satisfie them This is from the efficacy of his grace in them as it was in the Spouse Cant. 5. 4 5 6 8 10. 3. That Gods with-drawing from them in any degree makes them fearful of his forsaking them utterly and for prevention thereof careful to engage themselves to obey him more perfectly Thus it wrought in David Psal 119. 8. I will keep thy Statutes O forsake me not utterly These are the persons who are called to exercise hope in God in this case To instruct them how to perform this great duty aright I shall propound five Directions 1. Direction Make it clear unto your own souls that you have a good ground of hope See that your faith in God is right For this hope is the daughter of faith And if you are in the dark as to present sight of your good estate consider whether formerly when you had a clear light you then knew that your soul said the Lord is my portion For it may be at sometimes with a true believer spiritually as it was with Eutychus bodily in Acts 20. 10. that though life is in him yet he hath not the sense of it Then though Gods face is towards him yet he complains that he hath long hid his face from him as David did in Psal 13. 1. and if his Ministers speak comfortably to him it is with him as it was with the people of Israel when Moses spake as comfortably unto them as at any time but they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of heart Exod. 6. 9. and when he remembers God he is troubled and complaineth and his spirit is over-whelmed as Asaph found in Psal 77. 3. In this case faith it self must be helped by reflecting upon former experience This course Asaph took and found relief by it ibid. ver 5 6. So a believer having called to mind form 〈◊〉 passages betweeen God and his soul when he made diligent search and upon tryal of his estate toward God by Scripture light found it to be good hath good ground to hope in God that it is so still and that it will so continue for ever and that from the sure Word of God in the Scripture which ass●●●s us tha● Gods drawing us to himself in Christ is from his everlasting love Ier. 31. 3. and that Christ having loved his own which are in the World loveth them unto the end Ioh. 13. 1. and that the gifts and callings of God are without repentance Rom. 11. 29. As a man who hath deliberately cast up his accounts and summed up the particulars exactly when he took a fit season for it if afterward when being sick or in some hurry of businesse he is not fit to review the particulars he be demanded how the Accounts stand he will refer himself to the foot of his Account in a certain perswasion that it is right so a believer being under temptations and seeming desertion may and should exercise this hoping in God and hath good ground so to do from what he formerly found when he diligently searched into particulars though now he cannot call them to mind Or as a woman with child having felt it stir in her womb knowes thereby that she hath been quickened and conceived and hath thereby comforting hope that it will go on though she doth not alwayes feel it stir So 〈◊〉 is in this case and much rather For that conception may die and the woman may miscarry but so canno● the regenerate being born again● not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible by the Word of God which liveth and abideth for ever 1 Pet. 1. 23. 2. Direction When thus the ground of hope is cleared to be good and way is made for the excercise of it then let it be exercised in its purging work This is the