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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§. 156. Of hope of things not seen.

THis part of the description of hope, that it entereth into that within, sheweth that hope is of things not seen. This doth the Apostle expresly prove, Rom. 8. 24. As faith, so hope is the evidence of things not seen, Heb. 11. 1. By hope we look at the things which are not seen, 2 Cor. 4. 18. God hath begotten us again unto a lively 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of an inheritance reserved in heaven, 1 Pet. 1. 3, 4.

This God hath so ordered to try our patience, Faith, Love, &c. 1 Pet. 1. 7, 8.

1. Herein lyeth a main difference betwixt a Christians hope and sight. This lat∣ter is of things visible; The former of things invisible.
2. Herein lyeth a main difference betwixt the hope of true Christians, and meer worldlings, whose hope is onely on the things here below, which are visible.
3. This teacheth us to waite for the things which we hope for. For if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience waite for it, Rom. 8. 25. It is very requi∣site that we walt with patience, lest otherwise we saile of the end of our hope.