 | Theodor Spencer - 1854 - 412 pages
...Will you please explain what is intended by evangelical faith? P. Faith, in its most general sense, is the assent of the mind to the truth of what is .declared...by another, resting on his authority and veracity without other evidence. This, when exercised in the truths of divine revelation, is intellectual faith... | |
 | Spiritual wrestler - 1854 - 208 pages
...in your behalf; and I give my sincere love to each of you. TH Kirby, Oct. Sth, 1818. FAITH. Faith is the assent of the mind to the truth of what is declared...by another, resting on his authority and veracity, without other evidence ; the judgment that what another states or testifies is the truth; the assent... | |
 | John Ogilvie - 1865 - 846 pages
...Btliff; tnut; confidence; reliance; credence; fidelity; faithfulness; truthfulness; truth; credit given; the assent of the mind to the truth of what Is declared...by another, resting on his authority and veracity, without other evidence; trust in the honesty or veracity of another; the assent of the mind to the... | |
 | 1862 - 900 pages
...ratified the peace of the Pyrenees, whence it is also called the Isle of Conference. FAITH, fayth, s. (ANJ Belief; the assent of the mind to the truth of what...by another, resting on his authority and veracity, without other evidence ; the judgment that what another states or testifies is the truth ; the assent... | |
 | John W. Harsha - 1870 - 516 pages
...of the Lord. But what is faith and what office does it perform in our salvation ? Faith signifies " the assent of the mind to the truth of what is declared by another, resting entirely on his authority and veracity. It is belief on probable evidence of any kind. It is dependence... | |
 | John Ogilvie - 1872 - 488 pages
...fari,fatus, to speak.] Faith, fath, n. Belief; trust; reliance; fidelity; truthfulness; credit given; tin- assent of the mind to the truth of what is declared by another; trust in the honesty or veracity of another: belief on probable evidence; trurt and belief in God and... | |
 | Elvira S. Mansfield - 1893 - 196 pages
...MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. FAITH. What do we mean by this word ? The lexicographers give us this definition: "Belief, the assent of the mind to the truth of what is declared ; reliance on testimony." "The substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen," is... | |
 | Frank E. Morehouse - 1898 - 184 pages
...worry over the belongings of another. CHAPTER XIV. THE FAITH THAT BKIXGS VICTORY. Definition-"Belief; the assent of the mind to the truth of what is declared by another; resting solely and implicitly on his authority and veracity" — Webster. "Now faith is the assurance of things... | |
 | 1901 - 532 pages
...of grass, greener and fresher than that in the middle. They are ascribed to a kind of fungus. Faith, the assent of the mind to the truth of what is declared...by another, resting on his authority and veracity, either without other evidence or on probable evidence of any kind. In a special sense the term faith... | |
 | P. Irāman̲ātan̲ - 1906 - 288 pages
..."Faith" is commonly supposed to be identical with belief, and lexicographers define those terms to mean the assent of the mind to the truth of what is declared by another, resting on either the manifest truth of what he utters or his own authority. But faith is much more than belief.... | |
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Faith, in its most general sense, is the assent of the mind to the truth of what is .declared by another, resting on his authority and veracity without other evidence. 
