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 is true. The delightful inference, that I am a saved soul, may be true—may follow logically from the truths believed, and my act of believing—may, therefore, in some sort, be involved in the proposition, I believe; and yet it is no part of that faith which is saving.
James W. Alexander — 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
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