These are precious promises, confirmed by an oath , that the heirs of them might have strong consolation , Heb. 6:17 , 18 . It is all one whether we take them as pleas urged in the prayer or as answers returned to the prayer; believers know how to make use of the promises both ways, with them to speak to God and in them to hear what God the Lord will speak to us. These promises relate to the estab...