But there is something more in the scriptural idea of faith than that it is "the evidence of things not seen." I may see many things which do not belong to me, and never were designed for me; and like the Samaritan lord, I may see things with my eyes, and not eat thereof. I may perish within sight of salvation. Faith not only discerns things that are invisible, but assents to them and relies upon them, receives and appropriates them; and in this sense it is more fitly described as the hand of the soul. In the matter of justification, it is faith that receives as by a hand the righteousness of Christ, and appropriates it to the believer's wants.
George Cole — Rev. George Cole, B.A., Assistant Minister of Trinity Chapel, Conduit Street, The Threefold Cord; or, Justification by the Grace of God, the Righteousness of Christ, and the Faith of Man (London: J. Nisbet and Co., 1845), "Justification by Faith," pp. 81-82
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