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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 us incite us to sin. It is the temper of mind which thus gives to things unseen their appropriate mastery over things seen; it is the overcoming of the world by the power of holy trust in God; reliance upon his perfections, when every dictate of human wisdom would lead us to distrust him.

Francis Wayland — 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.

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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.

Francis Wayland, 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. (archive.org) - 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.

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