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Faith, Then, Generically, Is Confidence In A Personal Being. Specifically, Religious Faith Is Confidence In God, In Every Respect And Office In Which He Reveals Himself. As That Love Of Which God Is The Object Is Religious Love, So That Confidence In Him As A Father, A Moral Governor, A Redeemer, A Sanctifier, In All The Modes Of His Manifestation, By Which We Believe Whatever He Says Because He Says It, And Commit Ourselves And All Our Interests Cheerfully And Entirely Into His Hands, Is Religious Faith.

Whatever Capacities There May Be For Enjoyment Or For Suffering In This Strange Being Of Ours, And God Only Knows What They Are, They Will Be Drawn Out Wholly In Accordance With Character.

The Strength That We Want Is Not A Brute, Unregulated Strength; The Beauty That We Want Is No Mere Surface Beauty; But We Want A Beauty On The Surface Of Life That Is From The Central Force Of Principle Within, As The Beauty On The Cheek Of Health Is From The Central Force At The Heart.

The Very Act Of Faith By Which We Receive Christ Is An Act Of The Utter Renunciation Of Self, And All Its Works, As A Ground Of Salvation. It Is Really A Denial Of Self, And A Grounding Of Its Arms In The Last Citadel Into Which It Can Be Driven, And Is, In Its Principle, Inclusive Of Every Subsequent Act Of Self-denial By Which Sin Is Forsaken Or Overcome.

We Say Then, That Christianity Is Adapted To The Intellect, Because Its Spirit Coincides With That Of True Philosophy; Because It Removes The Incubus Of Sensuality And Low Vice; Because Of The Place It Gives To Truth; Because It Demands Free Inquiry; Because Its Mighty Truths And Systems Are Brought Before The Mind In The Same Way As The Truths And Systems Of Nature; Because It Solves Higher Problems Than Nature Can; And Because It Is So Communicated As To Be Adapted To Every Mind.