Discourse VI, "The Soul Sustained by Hope Rising to Assurance," in Consolation: In Discourses on Select Topics, Addressed to the Suffering People of God, 6th ed. (New York: Charles Scribner, 1864), p. 148

Saving faith is not a belief that I have saving faith, but a belief in Christ the Saviour, and a receiving of him as offered in the Word; a holding of the recorded offer to be credible; and a setting-to the seal that God…