It is never on account of its formal nature as a psychic act that faith is conceived in Scripture to be saving. It is not, strictly speaking, even faith in Christ that saves, but Christ that saves through faith. The saving power resides exclusively, not in the act of faith or the attitude of faith or nature of faith, but in the object of faith.
We can never know that we are elected of God to eternal life except by manifesting in our lives the fruits of election.
The marvel of marvels is not that God, in his infinite love, has not elected all this guilty race to be saved, but that he has elected any.
A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly problems. It is almost equally true that a clear and full apprehension of the universal providence of God is the solution of most theological problems.
Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving.
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