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A Treatise On the Doctrines and Evidences of the Christian Religion. Also an Appendix On Secularism
A Treatise On the Doctrines and Evidences of the Christian Religion Also an Appendix On Secularism Author:John Scott General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1854 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: SECTION XIII. Faith. I. Faith is belief, or the reception of a declaration as true, on the evidence of testimony. There is but one kind of faith, although it may have a variety of objects. What is called, ' saving faith,' is ' the belief of saving truth;' and this saving truth is not difficult of discovery; it is so simple that a child may understand it. ' The wayfaring men though fools shall not err therein,' Isa. xxxv. 8. It is the truth concerning Jesus as expressed in such passages as the following: -- ' Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures,' 1 Cor. xv. 3. ' God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.' John iii. 16. ' The Lord is well pleased for his righteousness sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable,' Isaiah xlii. 21. The truth concerning Jesus is called saving, because all who beh'eve it are saved. ' He that believeth on the Sou hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him,' John iii. 36. II. 'A man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law,' Rom. iii. 28; yet the believer has no ground of boasting in his faith. ' Salvation is of faith, that it might be by grace,' Rom. iv. 16. ' Where is boasting then ? It is excluded. By what law ? of works ? Nay; but by the law of faith,' Rom. iii. 27. ' By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, least any man should boast,' Eph. ii. 8, 9. III. Behold the effects of the truth about Jesus upon tho...« less