FAITH is ordinarily begotten by the preaching of the gospel, or word of Christ, without respect to any power or agency in the creature; but it being wholly passive, and dead in trespasses and sins, doth believe and is converted by no less power than that which raised Christ from the dead.
Rom.10:17; 1 Cor.1:28; Rom.9:16; Ezek.16:16; Rom. 3:12, 1:16; Eph.1:19; Col.2:12.