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Lecture Second

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The second Lecture is the longest lectures in the Lectures of faith. Lecture two focuses on the stories of Adam and Eve, and their children as it discusses how the knowledge of God came into the world. 1. Having shown in our previous lecture "faith itself'-what it is," we shall proceed to show, secondly, the object on which it rests.  2. We here observe that God is the only supreme governor and independent being in whom all fullness and perfection dwell; who is omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient; without beginning of days or end of life; and that in him every good gift, and every good principle dwells; and that he is the Father of lights; in him the principle of faith dwells independently, and he is the object in whom tile faith of all other rational and accountable beings centers for life and salvation.  3. order to present this part of the subject in a clear and conspicuous point of light,  it is necessary to go back and show the evidences which mankind have h...
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Lecture First

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The first Lecture of Faith set the groundwork for the rest of the work, defining faith and its power. 1   Faith being the first principle in revealed religion, and the foundation of all righteousness, necessarily claims the first place in a course of lectures which are designed to unfold to the understanding the doctrine of Jesus Christ. 2 In presenting the subject of faith, we shall observe the following order: 3 First, Faith itself—what it is: 4 Secondly, The object on which it rests; and 5 Thirdly, The effects which flow from it. 6 Agreeably to this order we have first to show what faith is. 7 The author of the epistle to the Hebrews, in the eleventh chapter of that epistle, and first verse, gives the following definition of the word faith: 8 Now faith is the substance [assurance] of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 9 From this we learn, that faith is the assurance which men have of the existence of things which they have not seen; and the principle of action i...
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