Miracle-working faith is a special gift; justifying faith is named; Rome confuses it with historical faith

But there is also a certain faith which is counted among the peculiar gifts of the Spirit (1 Corinthians 12:9), and which does not fall to all who are in the Church, but to a few, as it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit. This is the faith through which miracles are wrought, from which it has also received its name. And it is found in the one who, called by God to work miracles and having a promise concerning this matter — as the Apostles had from the mouth of Christ, and many others from an inward revelation of the Spirit — does not hesitate or distrust, but is certainly persuaded that God is able and willing to accomplish those stupendous works through him. Of this faith Christ speaks in Mark 11:22 when he says to the disciples, Have faith in God. Amen I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, Be taken up and cast into the sea, and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him, whatever he says (Mark 11:22-23). He also reproaches the disciples for the defect of this faith in Matthew 17:20, when he refers the cause why they could not cast out the demon to their unbelief. And to this the Apostle looks in 1 Corinthians 13:2: If I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

Finally there is another faith, to which Scripture attributes our righteousness and salvation, to which it urgently and often exhorts us, and which it adorns with the highest praises and elogies. And this is the faith which we name justifying, saving, living, and true.

But here we have a dispute with the Doctors of the Roman Church: for they confuse justifying faith with that which we have just called historical, and put no distinction between them, but want them to be plainly one and the same. Then they also teach that the faith of miracles is nothing other than a certain excellent grade of justifying faith.