Certaine Serious Thoughts which at severall times & upon sundry Occasions have stollen themselves into Verse and now into the Publike View from the Author: Together w[i]th a Chronologicall table denoeting the names of such Princes as ruled the neighbor States and were con-temporary to our English Kings, observeing throughout ye number of yeares w[hi]ch every one of them reigned [by Christopher Wyvill] |
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HOPE.
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HOPE.
Bvilt-up on this foundation, 'tis the scope
Of saving Faith's next coosen-german, Hope,
With patient longings to expect that blisse
Whereof, the former present earnest is.
Faith (in some sort) already Christ injoy's;
Hopes object are those consummated joyes.
Of saving Faith's next coosen-german, Hope,
With patient longings to expect that blisse
Whereof, the former present earnest is.
Faith (in some sort) already Christ injoy's;
Hopes object are those consummated joyes.
Fides intuetur verbum rei, spes autem rem verbi.
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