Richard Sibbes on faith and hope

“Faith looks to the word promising, hope to the thing promised in the word; faith looks to the authority of the promise, hope especially to the goodness of the promise; faith looks upon things as present, hope as to come hereafter. God as the first truth, is that which faith relies on; but God as the chief good is that which hope rests on.”

(Richard Sibbes, The Soul's Conflict with Itself and Victory over Itself by Faith, in Works of Richard Sibbes, ed. Alexander B. Grosart (7 vols, Edinburgh, 1862-4, rept. Banner of Truth-, I:203)