 | James Morgan - Bible - 1865 - 558 pages
...particularly, what is faith, as it has Christ for its great, absorbing object ? " Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is a saving grace, whereby we receive...salvation, as he is offered to us in the gospel." Only reflect upon these exercises. It is a grace, because it is the gift of God, produced in the soul... | |
 | Bible - 426 pages
...narrative of our Lord's dealings with this woman who was a sinner. I. THE NATURE OF FAITH. — " Faith in Jesus Christ is a saving grace, whereby we receive and rest on Him alone for salvation." It was so in the case of this woman ; she may have been one of the multitude... | |
 | 1870 - 876 pages
...corroborated by the Standards of the Church. " Faith in Jesus Christ," in the declaration of the Catechism, " is a saving grace, whereby we receive and rest upon Him alone for salvation, as He is freely offered to us in the gospel." Nor is faith merely thus an exercise of trust and appropriation,... | |
 | John Green - Sunday school teachers - 1870 - 304 pages
...the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God. 86. ft. What is faith in Jesus Christ? A. Faith in Jesus Christ is a saving grace,' whereby we receive' and rest upon him alone for salvation,'i as he ia offered to us in the gospel.* • Heb. x. 39. We are not of them who draw back... | |
 | William Graham - Bible - 1870 - 432 pages
...faith ? The best human definition is this : " Faith is a saving grace, whereby we receive Jesus Christ, and rest upon Him alone for salvation, as He is offered to us in the Gospel." Volumes have been written on the nature of saving faith without making it much clearer. It is the simplicity... | |
 | William Gurney - 1870 - 880 pages
...of God, who takes the things of Christ and shows them to us, whereby we receive and rest on Christ alone for salvation, as He is offered to us in the gospel. To FALL, metaphorically taken, means to become guilty of sin, or be subjected to misery : in this way... | |
 | Glasgow sabbath school union - 1870 - 834 pages
...Shorter Catechism as we have printed it in our Lesson Paper this month. As we print it, it reads, that "Repentance unto life is a saving grace, whereby a sinner, out of true sense of his sin," &c. In leaving out the article a that invariably occurs in the copies of the... | |
 | Thomas Jackson Crawford - Atonement - 1871 - 568 pages
...office of faith is, not to recognise His benefits as already actually put into our possession, but to "receive and rest upon Him alone for salvation, as He is offered to us in the Gospel," in order that His benefits may thus come into our possession, by no other than the perfectly simple... | |
 | Margaret Fraser Barbour - 1872 - 234 pages
...said, " And what think you is faith, Jamie ?" He was very weak then, but he cried aloud, — " FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST is A SAVING GRACE, WHEREBY WE RECEIVE...SALVATION, AS HE IS OFFERED TO US IN THE GOSPEL." The Word of God is to his children all in all. But then there never was a shade of error held up to... | |
 | Anti-Catholicism - 1872 - 628 pages
...believe, and they tremble. Faith in Jesus Christ is something far more, far different from this. It is "a saving grace, whereby we receive and rest upon...for salvation as He is offered to us in the gospel." It is to them that receive Christ that power is given to become the sons of God, even to them that... | |
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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. 
