The real guilt of unbelief lies in that voluntary indifference toward Christ, and impenitence of heart, in which the Holy Spirit cannot inspire saving faith.
Such definitiohs of saving faith are, I fear, too narrow to be just, and too unguarded to keep out Solifidianism.
As soon as he was able to speak English intelligibly, he began to give addresses on saving faith to the good folk who met at James Hutton's house; and before long he changed the whole character of the Society.
According to High-Church Anglican writers, John Wesley was a Christian saint before he ever set eyes on Boehler's face;108 according to Methodists he had only a legal religion and was lacking in genuine, saving faith in Christ.
Government: "Saving faith is the consent of the will to the assent of the understanding, and commonly accompanied with emotion.
So saving faith is not necessarily assurance of faith; but it becomes assurance of faith when the Holy Spirit "beareth witness with our spirit, that we are children of God" (Rom.
We need to emphasize this active element in saving faith, lest men get the notion that mere indolent acquiescence in Christ's plan will save them.
Crowns and kingdoms for the least measure of saving faith, and for the love, that Christ will say, is the love of his own Spirit.
A right figure of saving faith; for that maketh not outward observation a ground and foundation for faith, but Christ the rock, who as to sense and feeling is at first quite out of sight.
Saving faith is the hearty entertainment of Christ as our Lord and Saviour, and the delivering up of the soul to him to be sanctified and ruled, as well as pardoned.
Now, also, I suppose that thou wilt say in thy heart, I would you would show us then what is saving faith; which thing it may be I may touch upon a while hence, in the next thing that I am to speak unto.
Now the soul sees it hath by nature no saving faith, no saving hope, no grace at all by nature, by the first covenant.
Saving faith is wrought by the Word of God, and so may the faith be that is not saving.
At present I am concerned only with the defence of my position, that the death of Christ is never mentioned as the object of saving faith; but that his resurrection unquestionably is.
No wonder that they who preach orthodoxy as saving Faith, revealed from the first by God in a perfect form, say so little to their hearers of the history of their creeds.
If the whole population of the earth were to stand before me, and assure me of the truth of God's word, and that I were to believe on their authority, it would not be saving faith at all.
Saving faith is believing what God says because He says it, and this faith is wrought in the soul by the Holy Spirit.
All these things must go for what they are worth; they are by no means essential in laying the foundation of saving faith.
Men who went to the Bible might go wrong, and it was spiritual death to make any mistake; but all who simply assented to the interpretation of the Bible given in the Church's theology were kept right and had the true or saving faith.
The reason why the Reformers found a natural unity in the Bible, and why the Romanists had to construct an artificial one, lay, as we shall see, in their different conceptions of what was meant by saving faith.
Nor can the question be discussed apart from the Reformation idea of saving faith; for the two thoughts of Scripture and saving faith always correspond.
I had been led to believe a hundred other things connected with these about the plan of redemption, the way of salvation, imputed righteousness, saving faith, &c.
There were many definitions and descriptions of saving faithcommon in religious books for which I could find no authority in Scripture.
We talked on saving faith, imputed righteousness, predestination, divine foreknowledge, election, reprobation and redemption.
Certain notions about the faith of the ancient saints must give way, and the views of saving faith presented in the eleventh chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews must take their place.
He said that a feeling of assurance of salvation was not of the essence of saving faith, though it might accompany a high degree of such faith.
Saving faith, said Sandeman, is an act of man's reason, and it differs from any other act of belief only in being belief of a saving fact.
Such a conviction of the truth of religion as this, arising, these ways, from a sense of the divine excellency of them, is that true spiritual conviction that there is in saving faith.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "saving faith" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
