Hope That Maketh Not Ashamed

“And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God

is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.”

(Romans 5:5)

Predestination should be publicly taught and insisted upon in order to confirm and strengthen true believers in the certainty and confidence of their salvation. For when regenerate persons are told and are enabled to believe, that the glorification of the elect is so assuredly fixed in God’s purpose from before the foundation of the world, that it is impossible for any of them to perish and when the regenerate are led to consider themselves as actually belonging to this elect body of Christ, what can establish, strengthen and settle their Faith like this? Nor is such a Faith presumptuous, for every truly converted sinner may and ought to conclude himself elected, since God the Spirit renews those only who were chosen by God the Father and redeemed by God the Son, Ephesians 1:6-14. He is that Hope which maketh not ashamednor can possibly issue in disappointment if entertained by those into whose hearts the Love of God is poured forth by the Holy Ghost given unto them.