John Calvin On Faith – “Faith then is not a naked knowledge either of God or
of his truth; nor is it a simple persuasion that God is, that his word is the
truth; but a sure knowledge of God’s mercy, which is received from the gospel,
and brings peace of conscience with regard to God, and rest to the mind. The
sum of the matter then is this,—that if salvation depends on the keeping of the
law, the soul can entertain no confidence respecting it, yea, that all the
promises offered to us by God will become void: we must thus become wretched
and lost, if we are sent back to works to find out the cause or the certainty
of salvation . . . for as the law generates nothing but vengeance, it cannot
bring grace.”(From Commentaries on the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the
Romans)
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