satisfied with knowing and experiencing that by this grace of God they are enabled to believe with the heart and to love their Saviour. ART. XIV. Faith is therefore to be considered as the gift of God, not on account of its being offered by God to man, to be accepted or rejected at his pleasure, but because it is in reality conferred, breathed, and infused into him; nor even because God bestows the power or ability to believe, and then expects that man should, by the exercise of his own free will,
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