To Christ, For Us: The Savior And The Saved

Therefore, one can also say that the sacraments have sealed to Christ what is depicted in them for the elect. The Father promised and assured Him that, on the basis of His merits, everything represented in the sacraments would occur in the members of His body.

Not saving faith, which there could not be in the Mediator, but faith in the broader sense as a holding to be true, and a trust in the promise of the Father, can, through the use of these signs, provide strength in Christ with respect to His human nature (cf. Matt 3:16, 17 with Matt 4:11; 17:1ff.; John 12:28; Luke 22:43).

—Geerhardus Vos, Reformed Dogmatics, ed. Richard B. Gaffin and Richard de Witt, trans. Annemie Godbehere et al., vol. 2 (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2013), 54.

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  1. “Not saving faith, which there could not be in the Mediator, but faith in the broader sense as a holding to be true”

    In this line, is Vos saying here that Christ’s faith differs from ours?

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