OFF HOPE.

Hope is a trustie looking for of thingis that ar promesed to come unto

us: as we hope the everlasting joy which Christ hath promesed unto all

that beleve on him. We should putt our hoipe and trust in God onlie, and

no other thing. "It is good to trust in God, and nott in man." "He that

trustith in his awin harte, he is a fuill." "It is good to trust in God,

and not in princes." (Psal. 117.)--"Thei shal be lyik unto images that

mack thame, and all that trust in thame." He that trusteth in his awin

thoughts doeth ungodlie. "Curssed be he that trustith in man." "Bidd the

rich men of this warld, that thei trust nott in thair unstable riches,

but that thei trust in the leving God." "It is hard for them that trust

in money to enter in the kingdome of God." Moirovir, we should trust in

him onelie, that may help us [God onlie can help us.]--Ergo, we should

trust in him onelie. Weill is thame that trust in God: and wo to thame

that trust him nott. "Weill is the man that trustis in God; for God

shalbe his trust." He that trusteth in him shall understand the trewth.

"Thei shall all rejoyse that trust in thee: thei shall all evir be

glaid; and thow wilt defend thame."

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