Spurgeon on Faith

The old writers, who are by far the most sensible—for you will notice that the books that were written about two

hundred years ago by the old Puritans have more sense in one line than there is in a page of our new books and more in a

page than there is in a whole volume of our modern divinity. 

The old writers tell you that faith is made up of three things—

first knowledge, 

then assent 

and then what they call affiance—or the laying hold of the knowledge to which we give assent and making it our own by trusting in it.

2 thoughts:
1.) Funny that Spurgeon would say this in 1856!  This is exponentially true now.

2.) Would apply like this: Knowledge ("Flipping that switch turns on the light? Really")
Assent ("I think flipping that switch would turn on the light.")
Affiance ("I flip the switch.")

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