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Faith is knowledge passing into conviction, and it is conviction passing into confidence. . . . It is a receiving and resting upon him. . . . It is entrustment of ourselves to him. It is not simply believing him; it is believing in him and on him.

There are three things that need to be said about the nature of faith. Faith is knowledge, conviction, and trust.

Salvation is of the Lord in its application as well as in its conception and accomplishment.

[T]he order in the application of redemption is found to be, calling, regeneration, faith and repentance, justification, adoption, sanctification, perseverance, glorification. When this order is carefully weighed we find that there is a logic which evinces and brings into clear focus the governing principle of salvation in all of its aspects, the grace of God in its sovereignty and efficacy.

Conversion, it ought to be remembered, is not the gospel. It is the demand of the gospel message and the proper response to it. Any transformation which occurs in us is the effect in us of that which is proclaimed to have been accomplished by God. The change in our hearts and minds presupposes the reconciliation [2 Cor 5:19].