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for being the place where the peace of the Pyrenees was 
concluded, in 1669, between France and Spain : and for 
tl'.e interview between the kings of France and Spain, on 
the marriage of Louis XIV. Tire firft name it received 
from the number of pheafants found there, the laft from 
the circumflance of the interview : about two miles from 
Fontarabia. 
FAITH, f. ifoi, Fr. fide, Ital. files, Lat. ] Belief of 
the revealed truths of religion.— Faith, if it have not 
works, is dead. Jam. ii. 17. 
Then faith ftiall fail, and holy hope (hall die ; 
One loft in certainty, and one in joy. Prior. 
The fyftem of revealed truths held by the Chriftian 
church ; the credenda. —Felix heard Paul concerning the 
faith. A£ts xxiv.—This is the catholic faith. Common 
prayer. —Truft in God.— Faith is an entire dependance 
upon the truth, the power, the juftice, and the mercy, of 
God ; which dependance will certainly incline us to obey 
him in all things. Swift. —Tenet held : 
Which to believe of her, 
Muft be a faith , that reafon, without miracle, 
Should never plant in me. Shakefpeare. 
Truft in the honefty or veracity of another. Fidelity ; 
unlhaken adherence : 
Her failing, while her faith to me remains, 
I fttould conceal. Milton. 
Honour, focial confidence : 
For you alone 
I broke my faith with injur’d Palamon. Dryden. 
Sincerity ; honefty ; veracity.—They are a very froward 
generation, children in whom there is no faith. Deut. 
—Promife given : 
I have been forfworn, 
In breaking faith with Julia whom I lov’d. Shakefpeare. 
Faith differs from credulity in thefe refpedts, viz: it 
does not yield affent till after conviction ; and it refts 
Conviction on patient and full examination of the belt evi¬ 
dence fuited to the cafe. In demanding evidence it re¬ 
quires the witneffes to be men competent, honeft, and 
lincere ; incapable of being themfelves deceived, devoid 
of all finifter intention, and without intereft in deceiving 
others. Such were the apoftlesof our Lord ; and there¬ 
fore we have Faith in what they deliver to us concerning 
the birth, miracles, refurreCtion, and afcenfion of Christ. 
The Faith with which we believe their relations is 
Historical Faith, i. e. founded on the teftimony and 
credibility of hiftory. And this kind of faith we exercife 
alike in receiving either profane or facred writings, as 
true. There is however a Faith of a higher nature, and 
which regards only the concerns of religion. Such is the 
faith we have in God’s exiftence, attributes, and pro- 
mifes ; and in Chrift’s atonement, mediation, power to 
fave, and fecond appearance to raife the dead and difpenfe 
eternal rewards and punillunents. From its connexion 
with thefe momentous parts of religion, this is Religious 
Faith ; and if it fo influences our hearts and aCtions, that 
it excites us to obey the laws of the gofpel and preferves 
us fteadfaft in reliance on Chrift to fulfil his gracious and 
merciful afl'urances, it is then a Justifying Faith, i. e. 
a faith which will be acceptable to God, and will on con¬ 
dition of repentance and amendment recommend us, with 
all our involuntary imperfections, as though we were 
perfect ; and with all our paft butforfaken tranfgrefiions, 
as though we were juft ; for the fake of Chrift. 
FAlTH, Fides, was deified by the ancient Romans, 
and had a temple in the Capitol confecrated to her by 
Attilins Catalinns. Her priefts wore white veils: un¬ 
bloody facrifices were offered to her, and folemn oaths 
were taken in her name. Horace clothes her in white, 
places her in the retinue of fortune, and makes her the 
lifter of Juftice. Od. 24. Public faith is reprefented on a 
great number of medals; fometimes with a bafket of fruit 
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in one hand, and ears of corn in the other j and fometimes 
holding a turtle-dove. But the moft ufual fymbol is 
two hands joined together. The infcriptions are gene¬ 
rally, Fides Augujli , Sides Exercitus, or Fides Militum, 60c. 
FAITH'BREACH, J\ Breach of fidelity ; difloyalty ; 
perfidy: 
Now minutely revolts upbraid his faith breach ; 
Thofe he commands move only in command, 
Nothing in love. Shakefpeare. 
FAITH'ED, adj. Honeft ; fmcere. A word not in life; 
Thou baftard ! would the repofal 
Of any truft, virtue, or worth, in thee, 
Make thy words faith'd? Shakefpeare. 
FAITH’FUL, adj. Firm in adherence to the truth of 
religion.—To the faints which are at Ephefus and the 
faithfulxn Chrift Jefus. Eph. i. r.— Be thou faithful lAitO 
death, and I will give thee a crown of life. Rev. ii. 10.— 
Of true fidelity; loyal; true to the allegiance or duty 
profe (fed : 
So fpake the feraph Abdiel , faithful found ; 
Among the faithful only he. Milton. 
Honeft; upright; without fraud.—My fervant Mofes is 
faithful in all mine houfe. Numbers .—Obfervant of com. 
padi or promife; true to his contrail:; fmcere; veracious: 
Well I know him ; 
Of eafy temper, naturally good. 
And faithful to his word. Dryden. 
FAITH'FULLY, adv. With firm belief in religion.— 
With full confidence in God.—.With ftridt adherence to 
duty and allegiance : 
His noble grace would have fome pity 
Upon my wretched women, that fo long 
Have followed both my fortunes faithfully. Shakefpeare. 
Without failure of performance; honeftly ; exadtly : 
If on my wounded bread thou drop a tear, 
Think for vvhofe fake my breaft that wound did bear; 
And faithfully my laft defires fulfil, 
As I perform my cruel father’s will. Dryden. 
With earned profeflions ; with ftrong promifes.—For his 
own part he did faithfully promife to be ftill in the king’s 
power. Bacon. —Honeftly; without fraud, trick, or am¬ 
biguity.—They fuppofe the nature of things to be truly 
and faithfully fignined by their names, and thereupon be¬ 
lieve as they hear, and pradtife as they believe. South .—» 
In Shakefpeare, according to Mr. Warburton , fervently; 
perhaps rather confidently ; fteadily : 
If his occafions were not virtuous, 
I Ihould not urge it half fo faithfully. Timon. 
FAITH'FULNESS, f. Honefty; veracity.—For there 
is no faithfulnefs in your mouth ; your inward part is very 
wickednefs. Pfal. lix.—The band that knits together 
and fupportsall compadts, is truth and faithfulnefs. South „ 
—Adherence to duty ; loyalty.—The fame zeal and faith* 
fulnefs continues in your blood, which animated one of 
your noble anceftors. Dryden. 
FAITH'LESS, adj. Without belief in the revealed 
truths of religion ; unconverted : 
Never dare misfortune crofs her foot, 
Unlefs ftie doth it under this excufe, 
That (he is ifiue to a faithlefs Jew. Shakefpeare. 
Perfidious ; dilloyal ; not true to duty, profeflion, pro- 
inife, or allegiance.—A moft unnatural and faithlefs fer- 
vice. Shakefpeare. 
FAITH'LESSNESS,/. Treachery; perfidy.—Unbe¬ 
lief as to revealed religion. 
FAi'TOUR,/. Ifaitard, Fr.] A fcoundrel ; a rafcal; 
a mean fellow ; a poltroon. An old word now objolctc 
Into new woes unweeting I was call. 
By this falfe faitour. Fairy Queen. 
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