Flavel’s Exposition Quote Q&A 86

Of Saving Faith

How doth the Spirit of God ordinarily produce Faith?  A. By the preaching of the Word he ordinarily begets it, Rom 10:17 — Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God ; though sometimes he doth it immediately.

What is the true Character or Description of a Believer?  A. He is one that having been convinced of his Sin and Misery, and of his own and all other Creatures Inability to save him, and of the Ability and Willingness of Christ to save him, lets go all Hold, and Dependence on Creatures, and his own Righteousness, and casts himself entirely upon Christ for Righteousness and Life.