The believed gospel saves; but it is the believed promise that assures us of this salvation.
Horatius BonarDo not heed the jar of man's warring opinions. Let God be true and every man a liar. The Bible is the Bible still. If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God. You have an unction from the Holy One, and you know all things.
Horatius BonarUpon a life I did not live, upon a death I did not die; another's life, another's death, I stake my whole eternity.
Horatius BonarFaith is the acknowledgment of the entire absence of all goodness in us, and the recognition of the cross as the substitute for all the want on our part. Faith saves, because it owns the complete salvation of another, and not because it contributes anything to that salvation.
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