Salvation by Hope

sanctuary behind the curtain, where Jesus, who went before us, has
entered on our behalf. He has become a high priest forever."
Sometimes we found our hope on, or encourage it by, our former
experience; as Manoah's wife reasoned with her husband, when he
thought they must die because they had seen an angel of the Lord; she
said, "If the Lord were going to kill us—he would not have accepted our
burnt offering and grain offering. He would not have shown us all these
things or spoken to us now like this." So the believer now reasons, "If
God did not intend to save us—he would not have convinced us of sin,
led us to Jesus, or raised our hearts above; therefore I will hope in his
mercy, and expect everlasting life."
Hope is founded on the covenant of grace, as it includes the gifts and
promises of the Father, the offices and engagements of the Son, and as
ordered in all things and sure—our hope finds a firm, a settled, an
immovable foundation!
Hope, or the strongest desire for the greatest good, and a lively expectation of
the most glorious blessings, is warranted, fully warranted in God's most
holy word—and becomes at once one of our greatest privileges—and a
most solemn duty.
The OFFICE of Hope. "We are saved by hope" Not in the same sense as
we are saved by faith, which delivers us from guilt, degradation, and
eternal death, by receiving from Christ, and confiding in Christ. To
be saved by hope—is to be kept, preserved, upheld, or sustained, in the midst
of foes, dangers, and trials.
Hope quickens us in duties—and preserves us from becoming cold and
dead.
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