According to the eleventh chapter of the book of Hebrews, “Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen, it gives us assurance about things we cannot see” (Heb. 11:1, NIV). People apply their faith for a range of reasons:some make use of their faith for material things, while others simply exert their faith to auricularly discern God’s voice. Faith gives us both a positive declaration and confidence. On the other hand, doubt causes both fear and equivocality. Hence, fear and faith cannot co-subsist. John Donne’s Holy Sonnet # 2 and George Herbert’s The Collar, gives an account of: religious tensions, the ability to trust in God-or lack of trust in God’s definite ability to do what he verbalized he’d do, the puissance death and failure have over our minds, following the right path- Godly- versus the erroneous path- satanic, along
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Donne’s Holy Sonnet # 2 commences with an acquiescent tone. Donne appears to be compliant when he verbalizes “As due by many titles I resign/ Myself to thee, Oh God” (1-2). He then acknowledges that he was first made by God and for God (2-3); Thus, acknowledging that Jesus’ blood bought-or preserved - him. After Donne establishes that both he and God has a relationship and that his body was “...a temple of thy Spirit divine” (8), he commences to question why the devil is so active in his life. It is evident that there is a transmutation in tone from the commencement of the Holy Sonnet. At this point, Donne goes from being acquiescent to socratic. He rhetorically and socratically cross- examines “Why doth the devil then usurp on me?/Why doth he steal, nay ravish that’s thy right? (9-10). In antecedent lines, Donne asseverates that he is Thy son, Thy servant, and Thy sheep. Once more, Donne’s tone shifts. In lines eleven through fourteen, Donne becomes querulous. Boldly, Donne puts God under obligation: He declared “...rise and for thine own work fight”
Donne’s Holy Sonnet # 2 commences with an acquiescent tone. Donne appears to be compliant when he verbalizes “As due by many titles I resign/ Myself to thee, Oh God” (1-2). He then acknowledges that he was first made by God and for God (2-3); Thus, acknowledging that Jesus’ blood bought-or preserved - him. After Donne establishes that both he and God has a relationship and that his body was “...a temple of thy Spirit divine” (8), he commences to question why the devil is so active in his life. It is evident that there is a transmutation in tone from the commencement of the Holy Sonnet. At this point, Donne goes from being acquiescent to socratic. He rhetorically and socratically cross- examines “Why doth the devil then usurp on me?/Why doth he steal, nay ravish that’s thy right? (9-10). In antecedent lines, Donne asseverates that he is Thy son, Thy servant, and Thy sheep. Once more, Donne’s tone shifts. In lines eleven through fourteen, Donne becomes querulous. Boldly, Donne puts God under obligation: He declared “...rise and for thine own work fight”