The vvhole-armor of God: or A Christians spiritual furniture, to keepe him safe from all the assaults of Satan First preached, and now the second time published and enlarged for the good of all such as well vse it:whereunto is also added a treatise of the sinne against the Holy Ghost. By VVilliam Gouge B.D. and preacher of Gods Word in Blacke Fryers London. ...

§. 6. Of the difference betwixt Faith and Hope.

THey differ in these things especially.* 1.1

1 In their order: Faith is first, for it bringeth forth Hope:n 1.2 Faith is the ground of things hoped for.

2 In the kind of Obiect: Faith is also of thingso 1.3 past, andp 1.4 present: hope onely of things to come.

Obiect. Faith is also of things to come: for we beleeue eternall life.

Answ. Faith giuethq 1.5 a subsistence, and present being, to such things as are to come; by it we beleeue those good things which are promised to be ours, though the posses∣sion of them be to come.

3 In their nature: Faith beleeueth the very truth of

Gods promises, andr 1.6 sealeth that God is true: Hope wai∣teth till God manifest and accomplish his truth.

Thus we see that Hope is a different and distinct grace frō Faith: yea so, as it may be of vse when faith faileth: and it serueth to cherish and vphold Faith: needfull it is ther∣fore that vnto Faith it be added.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Wherein they differ.
• n 1.2

  Heb. 11. 1.
• o 1.3

  Heb. 11. 3.
• p 1.4

  Ioh. 20. 29.
• q 1.5

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Heb. 11. 1.
• r 1.6

  Ioh. 3. 33.