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2ndcommandment ambrose ames aquinas augustine bagchi barker bavinck beale beeke berkhof bernard beza bierma bolton boston bower brakel bridge bucey burgess butner calvin carmichael carpenter carson casselli charnock cho christ clark colquhoun confessionalism coxhead damascus davenant davis decampos dennison dickson dolezal dpoythress duby duguid dunnam dunson durham ferguson fesko fink flavel fortunato frame gaffin gamble garcia garner gatiss gerstner giles gillespie gonzalez goodwin gootjes gouge guthrie henry hiestand history hperkins jacomb jones jue kevan klauber kline knox krans kruger lane leigh letham lewis lillback lindberg lombard luther lynch mackay manetsch marriage mcgrath mcgraw mcwilliams miller muller murray oberman oliphint opc osborne owen packer pentecost perkins phillips pictet poythress predestination prosperaquitaine ralphdavis rcross resurrection roberts roney rsb rutherford salazar selderhuis shannon shedd sibbes silva sinnema spiritualgifts sproul strange svisser swain synopsis teellinck theonomy thompson tipton trueman tuckney turretin urcna vanasselt vandixhoorn vanmastricht vanraalte vantil venema versteeg vos waddington wallace warfield waters watson white whitman williams witsius woolsey zwingli { timeline }

Act of Faith

Faith is therefore an act, but of what? Certainly not of the body, although faith is attributed to it in its own way (Rom. 10:10; 1:8), but of the soul, for with the heart one believes (Rom. 10:10), and indeed, of the whole soul: “If you believe with your whole heart…” (Acts 8:37). For it is the first act of life, by which the whole person lives spiritually (Rom. 1:17; Gal. 2:20). Moreover, it is an act of each of the soul’s faculties—the intellect, the will, the affections, and so forth.

 

Petrus van Mastricht. Theoretical-Practical Theology: Faith in the Triune God, ed. Joel R. Beeke, trans. Todd Rester, vol. 2 (Grand Rapids, MI: Reformation Heritage Books, 2019), 43-44


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