ISRAEL'S HOPE ENCOURAGED: or, What Hope is, and how distinguished from Faith; with encouragements for a hoping people. Faith always before hope.. love brings up the rear.. hope looks to heavenly, eternal things.. too vast to be fully comprehended or attained.. it overcomes all terrors and difficulties. Hope in the Lord, for there is mercy, tender, great, rich, manifold, abounding, compassing mercy, from everlasting to everlasting.