Matthew Poole and continuators on Romans 4:18

18 Who against hope believed in hope , that he might become the father of many nations; according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be .

Abraham, when he had no natural or rational Grounds of Hope, either in Respect of himse[illegible: 1 letter]f, or Sarah his Wife, did yet Believe and Hope he should have a Son; and so be a Root or Stock, from whence many Nations should spring: And this Faith and Hope of his, was Grounded upon the Power and Faithfulness of God.

So as the Stars of Heaven for Multitude, which must be supply'd out of the Promise, in Gen. 15.5.

Here the Apostle Digresseth a little from his principal Argument, and falls into a Commendation of Abraham's Faith.

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