The one grand distinction, before God, by which a man’s state and destiny are determined, is the belief or rejection of the truth. To believe is to be saved; to live and die in unbelief is to be sealed up in hopeless and endless condemnation. True faith and certain salvation; continued unbelief and eternal misery; are inseparably linked together in the word of God. It is not sacramental efficacy or priestly absolutions; it is not by human effort or self-restraint; it is not by our own merit or our own exertions, and surely not by the merits or endeavors of our fellow creatures, that we can be saved: it is by grace through faith. “If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For the scripture saith, “Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.” Rom. 10