and it is different from a command in that it concerns good things freely bestowed rather than a duty to be done. Furthermore, Spurstowe suggests that the promises are “irreversible obsignations [seals] and declarations of God, which he has freely made” to believers.5 God’s promises are objects of our faith and hope, for faith believes those things that God has promised are true, and hope expects the performance of what faith believes. We believe what God has promised because He has committed and