Q. What is temporary faith ?—A. An affecting persuasion of divine truths, and presumptuous leaning on the promises for a time, without receiving Christ as our only Saviour, Matth. xiii. 20—22. Acts. viii. 13.

– John Brown of Haddington, An Essay towards an Easy, Plain, Practical, and Extensive Explication of the Assembly’s Shorter Catechism, pp. 27-28