The Work of the Holy Spirit

Son of God’ (Acts viii. 37). Trusting and believing are both acts of the heart, the will. If it be said that the heart refers al ...

“Fifthly, it is faith itself that unites the soul to Christ, appropriates the promises, satisfies the conscience, gives access t ...

“The question, ‘What is true faith?’ is very important, deserving most careful consideration; for they only that have true faith ...

another, this is no sign of insincerity; but it is the sign that such act or acts are not apparent. E.g.,the sense of taste can ...

“Lastly, that as faith is wrought by a testimony, so it is also made active by a testimony of God’s Word, rendered by an operati ...

“Beloved, we judge that we could let this matter pass without noticing it, were it not for the fact that this definition may fav ...

397 XXXVII. Faith in the Sacred Scriptures. “With the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is m ...

We distinguish here two kinds of faith. First, faith or no faith in testimony presented; second, faith or no faith in the person ...

confidence, which the Holy Ghost works by the Gospel in my heart; that not only to others, but to me also, remission of sin, eve ...

proper, and mentions only assent and confidence. For that certain knowledge of which it 401 speaks is not what the scholastics p ...

402 XXXVIII. The Faculty of Faith “As many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.”—Rom. viii. 14. Savingfait ...

But if the Christ after the Scripture fits his consciousness, that consciousness must have been changed from what it was by natu ...

when at sixteen he can do these things, it is owing not to new faculties received since his birth, but to the development of tho ...

applies to faith. For days and weeks we may have to reproach ourselves for the faithless condition of our own heart, when the so ...

407 XXXIX. Defective Learning “He that believeth on Him shall not be confounded.”—1 Peterii. 6. St. Paul declares that faith is ...

the gift of God.’ The word ‘that,’ (GR. tau omicron upsilon w/tonos tau omicron), refers either to the preceding ‘being saved,’ ...

perfectly well that it reads (GR. tau omicron upsilon w/tonos tau omicron), and that (GR. pi iota w/tonos sigma tau eta sigma) i ...

exceedingly one-sided, not national, foreign to our Church, in conflict with our history. This lack ought first to be supplied. ...

First, that the construction of a neuter pronoun with a feminine noun as its antecedent is not a mistake, but excellent Greek. S ...

Έγω γαρ, ω ανορες δικασται, περι της μαρτυρίας της εν τω γραμμαείω γεγραμμένης ειδως οντα μοι τον αγωνα, και περι τούτον την ψηφ ...