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The apostle having told us in general, that the saints by faith and patience do inherit the promises; instances here paticularly in Abraham, unto whom God made a promise of multiplying his seed greatly to him, and confirmed that promise by and oath; but Abraham waited long by faith and patience for the complete fulfilling of the promise; and so must we. God delights to be trusted by his people upon his word and oath; and when they do not live to see the promise of God fulfilled, they glorify him exceedingly, by dying in the faith and firm belief, that it shall be fulfilled in God's own appointed time.
Note here, The wonderful condescension of God towards the infirmity of men, he swears, he swears by himself, he pawns and pledges his Godhead, and if he performs not what he promises and swears, is willing to forfeit it. O felices nos! quorum causa Deus jurat! O miserrimi! si nec juranti credamus. "O happy man! For whose sake God condescends to swear. O miserable man! If we doubt of God's promise confirmed by his oath, in which he has laid down his Godhead as a stake and pawn, never to take it up again, if he fails in the least jot in the punctual performance of it."