Now faith is assurance ofthingshoped for, a conviction of things not seen.
Faith gives such reality and certainty to things hoped for and yet to come that the soul believes them as strongly as what it sees with bodily eyes. It realizes the invisible realities of another world unto our minds and causes us to act agreeably to their nature and importance.
AI summary
Hope feeds only on what God has promised, never on what He has not. Cast your anchor where David cast his: on the Word itself. Your hope trades in true good alone, and God has promised nothing but good to the upright. Fix your aim on God Himself; all other promises serve only to draw you nearer to Him.
AI summary
Commenting on Ephesians 6:10-20
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (1) An excellent description of faith by the effects, because it represents things which are but yet in hope, and sets as it were before our eyes things that are invisible.