Confessional Corner: God Gives Gifts in the Present (Ap V 183-194)
Our teaching, we hope, is readily understood by pious minds and brings godly and wholesome consolation to terrified consciences. ... People of sound mind can easily judge the faith that believes we are cared for by God, that we are forgiven and heard by Him. It is something that surpasses nature. (Ap V 182)
If anyone wants a distinction between faith and hope, we say that the object of hope is properly a future event, but that faith is concerned with future and present things. Faith receives the forgiveness of sins offered in the promise in the present. (Ap V 191)
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