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Flavel on Faith

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Publishing Committee · BATTLE CREEK, MICH. · May 27, 1858

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 12, No. 2.

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Flavel on Faith.

By John Flavel

THE gospel offer of Christ includes all his offices, and gospel faith just so receives him, to submit to him as well as to be redeemed by him; to imitate him in his life of holiness, as well as to reap the fruits of his death. It must be an entire receiving of the Lord Jesus Christ.
As it is Christ's glory to be "the door" of salvation, so it is faith's glory to be the golden key that opens that door.
Faith is the means of our spiritual livelihood and subsistence; all the other graces, like birds in a nest, depend upon what faith brings in to them. It provides our ordinary food, and our extraordinary cordials; "I had fainted unless I had believed."
A pardon which thou canst not read without tears of joy, is brought thee by the hand of faith.
Faith apprehends or receives the pure and perfect righteousness of the Lord Jesus, wherein the soul, how guilty and sinful soever it be in itself, stands faultless and spotless before the presence of God: all bonds to punishment are, upon believing, immediately dissolved; a full and final pardon sealed. O precious faith, who can sufficiently value it?—Sel.