65. Since, then, we are made partakers of Christ and all His benefits by faith only, where does this faith come from?

The Holy Ghost works faith in our hearts l) by the preaching of the Holy Gospel, and confirms it by the use of the holy sacraments.2)

1) Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. John 3:5.

* So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Rom. 10:17.

2) And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also. Rom. 4:11.

* And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. Acts 8:37.

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