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By whom also we haue accesse through faith in this grace wherein we stand, and glorie ∴ in the hope of the glorie of the sonnes of God.
Christian men do not vaunt them selues of the certaintie of their saluation, but glorie in the hope thereof onlie, which hope is here insinu∣ated to be giuen in our iustification, and is afterward to be confirmed by probation in tribulation.
It is wonderfull, that you are not ashamed to cut off all assu∣red
comforts from christian men. It were a vaine glorious vaun∣ting in déede, if this certaintie staied vpon anie matter in vs, but when it resteth vpon the goodnesse of God and his gracious pro∣mises, it were a péece of infidelitie not to glorie and reioice in it. We will consider therefore the effects and fruits of faith in belée∣uers, as the Apostle setteth them downe in this place: First iusti∣fication, then the sweete and inward féeling of our reconciliation and attonement with God, which he calleth peace toward God. Thirdlie, our constant standing and perseuering in this grace and fauour, into the which we are receiued. Fourthlie, the ioy and reioicing that this bréedeth through the assured hope and ex∣pectation, that we shalbe partakers of the glorie of the children of God, which ioy through hope assured, is so great in them that haue a continuall eie to the glory set before them, that no trouble nor tribulation can abridge or breake it off, but that our hope and expectation is still more and more confirmed and assured. But you to ouerthrow all this, make hope a doubtfull and vncer∣taine expectation of the things which God hath promised, and so call the truth of God into doubt.