 | Assembly of divines shorter catech - 1828 - 84 pages
...22. The Lord is our judge; the Lord is our lawgiver; the Lord is our king ; he will save us. 87 Q. What is repentance unto life? A. Repentance unto life is a saving gracea, whereby asinner,outof a true sense of his sins b, and apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ... | |
 | James Gall - Catechisms - 1829 - 230 pages
...heard ? and how shall they hear without a preacher ? Q. 86. What is faith in Jesus Christ ? A. Faith in Jesus Christ is a saving grace, whereby we receive...for salvation, as he is offered to us in the gospel. * EXERCISE. What is a saving grace ? Faith in whom ? What is faith in Jesus Christ here said to he... | |
 | Bible - 1871 - 582 pages
...commanded to believe, we are commanded to act. Saving faith is the act "of receiving and resting on Christ alone for salvation, as he is offered to us in the gospel." It may be called a principle, as the abiding purpose of a man to serve his country, is, for him, a... | |
 | Presbyterians - 1832 - 460 pages
...nature and importance of faith. This subject is kindred to the former, and rises out of it. '* Faith in Jesus Christ is a saving grace whereby we receive...salvation, as He is offered to us in the Gospel." Now He is pre-eminently the Truth, all the rays of divine truth converge and centre in " the Sun of... | |
 | John Whitecross - Congregational churches - 1830 - 196 pages
...soon gone, but the word of God endureth for ever." Q. 86. What is faith in Jesus Christ ? A. Faith in Jesus Christ is a saving grace, whereby we receive...for Salvation, as he is offered to us in the Gospel. "Children," says Cecil, " are capable of very early impressions. I imprinted on my daughter the idea... | |
 | Edward Fisher - Antinomianism - 1830 - 432 pages
...been crucified for our own sins: now this persuasion is that of true faith." Sunt. Catech. " Faith in Jesus Christ is a saving grace, whereby we receive...salvation, as he is offered to us in the gospel." Short. Catech. Now to percoive the entire harmony, between this and the old definitions of faith, compare... | |
 | Presbyterians - 1831 - 456 pages
...creed, nor in assenting to the truth of it. Faith in Christ, as our Shorter Catechism rightly teaches, is " a saving grace, whereby we receive and rest upon...salvation, as He is offered to us in the Gospel." Faith is thus shown to be manifested, in relying and resting upon Christ for deliverance from sin,... | |
 | Andrew Mitchell Thomson - 1830 - 528 pages
...Christ and his righteousness." The Shorter Catechism gives the following definition of faith ; " Faith in Jesus Christ is a saving grace, whereby we receive and rest upon him alone for salvavation, as he is offered to us in the gospel." And what can be the " common phraseology"* of this... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - Bible - 1831 - 88 pages
...20. 2Cor. 7:9,10. 2Pe(.3:<-i. 2:5,16,21,22. 86. What isjaith in yesus Christ? Faith in Jesus Chrit, is a saving grace,* whereby we receive and rest upon him alone for salvation, as lie is offered tf, us in the gospel. •Heb. 10:39. We are not of them, who draw bach unto perditicn;... | |
 | Archibald Hall - Faith - 1831 - 472 pages
...through Jesus Christ. 4. Saving faith, or faith in Jesus Christ, is " a" saving grace, whereby sinners receive and rest upon him alone for salvation, as he is offered to them in the gospel." Hereby sinners, viewing their own guilt and misery, cordially embrace the Lord... | |
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Faith in Jesus Christ is a saving grace, whereby we receive and rest upon him alone for salvation, as he is offered to us in the gospel. 
