“Without faith we have no business with Christ, in whom all the promises of God are yes and amen (2 Cor. 1:20). We are still in our sins, under the wrath of God, the curse of the law, eternal condemnation (Acts 26:18); without faith we are shut out of every hope of salvation (John 3:16, 18, 36).”

PETRUS VAN MASTRICHT, THEORETICAL-PRACTICAL THEOLOGY, VOLUME 2: FAITH IN THE TRIUNE GOD, 73.