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Temporary Faith – Archibald Hall
The idea of temporary faith is taken from the stony-ground hearers in the parable of the sower. They are said to “hear the word,” and “immediately with joy to receive it;” yet they “have no root in themselves,” and they “endure only for a while.” Hence their faith is called temporary, because it doth not…
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Temporary Faith – John Hales
Let therefore every man thoroughly examine his own heart, whether, upon supposal of times of trial and persecution, he can say with David, ‘My heart is ready:’ Psal. 108:1 [old translation] whether he can say of his dearest pledges,’All these have I counted dung for Christ’s sake?’ Philippians 3:8 whether he find in himself that…
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Temporary Faith – Philadelphia Confession of Faith
This faith [saving faith], although it be different in degrees, and may be weak or strong, yet it is in the least degree of it different in the kind or nature of it, as is all other saving grace, from the faith and common grace of temporary believers; and therefore, though it may be many…
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Temporary Faith – Menno John Bosma
In 1907, Menno John Bosma explained the concept of Temporary Faith this way: What is temporary faith? It is a receiving of the word straightway with joy, often caused by artificial methods. What is lacking in a person having temporary faith? A regenerated heart and therefore godly sorrow for sin and absolute surrender to Christ.…
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Temorary Faith – Robert Rollack
Next followeth a temporary. Of this faith ye have these texts : Matt. xiii. 20, 21, But he that received the seed in stony ground, is he who heareth the Word, and by and by receives it with joy, yet hath no root in himself, but is for a time, and when persecution and trouble…
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Temporary Faith – Ralph Erskine
(4.) There is a temporary faith, that goes beyond all the former, and is effected by the common operation of the Spirit of God: nor is it merely taken up with the truth of the gospel, but also hath some relish of the goodness and sweetness of it; and hence the stonyground hearers are said…
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Temporary Faith – John Brown of Haddington
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.…
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Temporary Faith – Zacharias Ursinus
Temporary faith is an assent to the doctrines of the church, accompanied with profession and joy, but not with a true and abiding joy, such as arises from a consciousness that we are the objects of the divine favor, but from some other cause, whatever it may be, so that it endures only for a…
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Temporary Faith – Abraham Kuyper Quoting Wilhelmus à Brakel
Wholly different from this is the historical faith, which Brakel briefly describes as follows: “Historical faith is thus called because it knows the history, the narrative, the description of the matters of faith in the Word, acknowledges them to be the truth, and then leaves them alone as matters that concern it no more than…
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Temporary Faith – Thomas Ridgley
There is another kind of faith, which has some things in common with saving faith, and is sometimes mistaken for it, but is vastly different from it. This, in some, is called an historical faith; and in others, by reason of the short continuance thereof, a temporary faith. An historical faith is that whereby persons…