Francis Wayland, Salvation by Christ: A Series of Discourses on Some of the Most Important Doctrines of the Gospel (Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1859), Sermon XII, "Justification by Faith" (Rom. 3:28), p. 178.

Faith is the exercise of filial love, successfully resisting the pressure of things present, sensual, and unholy. It is acting as God would have us, not when all things incite us to obedience, but when all things around…