A learned and very useful commentary on the whole epistle to the Hebrews wherein every word and particle in the original is explained ... : being the substance of thirty years Wednesdayes lectures at Black-fryers, London / by that holy and learned divine Wiliam Gouge ... : before which is prefixed a narrative of his life and death : whereunto is added two alphabeticall tables ...

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Title: A learned and very useful commentary on the whole epistle to the Hebrews wherein every word and particle in the original is explained ... : being the substance of thirty years Wednesdayes lectures at Black-fryers, London / by that holy and learned divine Wiliam Gouge ... : before which is prefixed a narrative of his life and death : whereunto is added two alphabeticall tables ...
Author: Gouge, William, 1578-1653.
Publication: London :: Printed by A.M., T.W. and S.G. for Joshua Kirton,; 1655.
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§. 62. Of Hope an evidence that we are Christs.

THe other evidence, that we are the house of Christ, is Hope. Hope necessari∣ly followerh upon faith. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, Heb. 11. 1. And hope is an expectation of that which is believed. Hope makes one wait for the fruition thereof. Hereby is faith sustained. Where there is no hope, there is no faith: where hope faileth, faith fainteth. Where there is no faith, there can be no spiritual life, no communion with Christ, no right to him. These two graces, Faith, Hope, are in all that are the house of Christ.

Of the Nature of Hope, what it is: Of the Properties of it: Of the Agreement and difference betwixt Faith and it: Of the need and use of it: of getting, preser∣ving, and well-managing of it, See The whole Armour of God on Eph. 6. 17. Treat. 2 Part 7. §. 3, &c.

Hope gives evidence that we are the house of Christ, in that it keepeth from fal∣ling away from Christ. It is as an Anchor of the Soul, sure and stedfast, Heb. 6. 19. This world is as a Sea: Christs Church (which is the house here spoken of) as a Ship therein: Satans assaults, persecutions in the world, all manner of troubles are as violent windes, which blow against that Ship; but it hath such an Anchor as holds it fast: no other Ship hath the like: all other Ships are tossed up and down, and at length overwhelmed in the Sea. If therefore we have this Anchor of Hope, which holds us fast, there is a good evidence, that we are the house of Christ.