Lord’s Day 7, Chapter 2: The Nature of Faith (3)

Saving faith, however, is also hearty confidence. The Catechism teaches us that true faith is not only a certain knowledge, "but also an assured confidence, which the Holy Ghost works by the gospel in my heart; that not only to others, but to me also remission of sin, everlasting righteousness mid salvation, are freely given by God, merely of grace, only for the sake of Christ's merits." After the emphasis we placed upon the knowledge of faith as a spiritual apprehension of the God of our...