FAITH, in Theology, that assent which we give to a proposition advanced by another, the truth of which we do not immediately perceive from our own reason or experience; or it is a judgment or assent of the mind, the motive of which is not so much any intrinsic evidence, as the authority or testimony of some other who reveals or relates it. Hence, as there are two kinds of authorities and testimonies, the one of God and the other of man, faith becomes distinguished into divine and human. Divine faith is that founded on the authority of God; or it is
that assent which we give to what is revealed by God. The objects of this faith, therefore, are matters of revelation. Human faith is that by which we believe what is told us by men; and its object is matter of human testimony and evidence.