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For Office; Faith is the Christians Logic, Hope his Rhetoric. Faith perceives what is to be done, Hope gives alacrity to the doing it. Faith guides, adviseth, rectifieth; Hope courageously encounters with all adversaries. Therefore Faith is compared to a Doctor in the Schools, Hope to a Captain in the wars. Faith discerns the truth, Hope fights against impatience, heaviness of Spirit, infirmity, dejectedness, desperation. Divines have alluded the difference between Faith and Hope in Divinity, to that between wisdom and valour in Philosophy. Valour without wisdom, is rashness: wisdom without valour, is cowardice. Faith without Hope, is knowledge without valour to resist Satan: Hope without Faith, is rash presumption, and an undiscreet daring. You see their different Office.

For Office; Faith is the Christians Logicke, Hope his Rhetorike. Faith perceiues what is to bee done, Hope giues alacritie to the doing it. Faith guides, adviseth, rectifieth; Hope couragiously encounters with all adversaries. Therefore Faith is compared to a Doctor in the Schooles, Hope to a Captaine in the warres. Faith discernes the truth, Hope fights against impatience, heauinesse of Spirit, infirmitie, deiectednesse, desperation. Divines haue alluded the difference betweene Faith and Hope in Divinity, to that betweene wisedome and valour in Philosophie. Valour without wisedome, is rashnesse: wisedome without valour, is cowardice. Faith without Hope, is knowledge without valour to resist Sathan: Hope without Faith, is rash presumption, and an vndiscreet daring. You see their different Office.

For Object; Faiths object is the absolute word, and infallible promise of God; Hopes object, is the thing promised. Fides intuetur verbum rei, Spes verò rem verbi: Faith looks to the word of the thing, Hope to the thing of the word. So that Faith hath for the object,¹ the Truth of God, Hope the Goodness of God. Faith is of things both good and bad, Hope of good things only. A man believes there is a hell, as truly as he believes there is a heaven; but he fears the one, and hopes only for the other. Faith hath objected to it things past, present, future. Past, it believes Christ dead for our sins, and risen again for our Justification. Present, that he now sits at the right hand of his Father in heaven. Future, that he shall come to judge quick and dead. Hope, only respects and expects things to come. For a man cannot hope for that which he hath. You see how in some sense, Hope excels Faith. For, there is a faith in the Devils; they