Worldly hopes are not living, but lying hopes; they die often before
us, and we live to bury them, and see our own folly and infelicity in
trusting to them; but at the utmost, they die with us when we die, and
can accompany us no further. But the lively Hope, which is the
Christian's Portion, answers expectation to the full, and much beyond
it, and deceives no way but in that happy way of far exceeding it.
A living hope, living in death itself! The world dares say no more for
its device, than _Dum spiro spero_: but the children of God can add,
by virtue of this living hope, _Dum exspiro spero_.