A glance of Heaven, or, A precious taste of a glorious feastA glance of Heaven, or, A pretious taste of a glorious feast

What is the work of faith? It is the evidence of things not seen. It sets the things of another world present before the eye of the soul, and in that respect ⟨p. 89⟩it is victorious, it conquers the world; because it sets a better world in the eye. Where were the exercise of faith, if it were not for hope of such an estate which feeds faith? the excellency of faith is, that it is about things not seen: it makes things that are not seen to be seen; it hath a kind of omnipotent power: it gives a being to things that have none, but in the promise of the speaker.

What is the worke of faith? It is the evidence of things not seene. It sets the things of another world present before the eye of the soule, and in that respect ⟨p. 89⟩it is victorious, it conquers the world; because it sets a better world in the eye. Where were the exercise of faith, if it were not for hope of such an estate which feeds faith? the excellencie of faith is, that it is about things not seene: it makes things that are not seene to be seene; it hath a kind of omnipotent power: it gives a being to things that have none, but in the promise of the speaker.

And for hope, the very nature of hope is to expect those things that faith believes. Were it not for the joys of heaven, where were hope? It is the helmet of the soul, to keep it from blows, and temptations. It is the Anchor of ⟨p. 90⟩the soul, that being cast within the veil into heaven, stays the soul in all the waves and troubles in this world: the consideration of the things to come, exerciseth this grace of hope; we look within the veil, and cast anchor there upward, and not downward, and there we stay our selves in all combustions, and confusions by the exercise of hope.