. Besides, he falls into something like a confusion of faith with belief, taken as a conviction or assent of the judgment. The faith and the righteousness of a Christian are both alike his, and not his — the faith of Christ in him, the righteousness in and for him.
[I] am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet, not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me
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Donne was a truly great man; but, after all, he did not possess that full, steady, deep, and yet comprehensive, insight into the nature of faith and works which was vouchsafed to Martin Luther. Donne had not attained to the reconciling of distinctity with unity, — ours, yet God's; God's, yet ours.
Ib.
D.
Velle et nolle nostrum est, to assent, or to dis-assent, is our own.
Is not this, even with the saving afterwards, too nakedly expressed?
Ib.