Required reading
Systematic Theology by Charles Hodge (Vol 3) (Available from Amazon or free here) - Continue Chapter 16 by reading up to the heading '8. Effects of faith'.
My summary
Today we continue learning about faith.
Firstly Hodge teaches us about feeling and faith. We learn that saving faith includes knowledge, assent and trust, and is not merely assent.
Secondly we look at the relation between faith and love. We are told love is the invariable and necessary attendant and consequent of saving faith.
Thirdly Hodge explains that the object of saving faith is the whole revelation of God as contained in his Word.
What grabbed me
I appreciated Hodge's comments about the faith and love: 'For it is admitted by all Protestants that saving faith and love are inseparably connected ; that faith without love, i. e., that a faith which does not produce love and good works, is dead. But Protestants are strenuous in denying that we are justified on account of love, which is the real meaning of the Romanists when they say "fides non justificat formaliter, nisi ab ipsa caritate formata."'
We are justified by faith alone.
Next week's reading
Conclude Chapter 16.
Now it's your turn
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