# “Faith takes, and rejoices, and hopes, and loves, and triumphs” by J. I. Packer

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- Published: 2007-09-09T01:19:17-05:00
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“Faith is a conscious acknowledgment of our own unrighteousness and ungodliness 
and on that basis a looking to Christ as our own righteousness, a clasping of Him
as the ring clasps the jewel (so Luther), a receiving of Him as an empty vessel 
receives treasure (so Calvin), and a reverent, resolute reliance on the biblical
promise of life though Him for all who believe.

Faith is our act, but not our work; it is an instrument of reception without being
a means of merit; it is the work in us of the Holy Spirit, who both evokes it and
through it ingrafts us into Christ in such a sense that we know at once the personal
relationship of sinner to Saviour and disciple to Master and with that the dynamic
relationship of resurrection life, communicated through the Spirit’s indwelling.
So faith takes, and rejoices, and hopes, and loves, and triumphs.”

–J. I. Packer, “Justification in Protestant Theology,” in _Honoring the People of
God, the Collected Shorter Writings of J. I. Packer_, 4 vols. (Carlisle, Cumbria,
UK: Paternoster, 1999), 4:228.

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