That we “believe through grace;” that faith is “the gift of God” does not prove faith to be a work of ours, any more than Christ’s raising Lazarus proved resurrection to be a work of the dead man. The divine infusion of life in the one case, and the divine impartation of faith in the other, so far from showing that there must be a work in either, indicates very plainly that there could not be any such thing. The work comes after the believing, and as the fruit of it. “Faith worketh by love,” that