Trusting God - Baxter - 022014

To trust in God, is, upon the apprehension of the allsufficiency, goodness, and faithfulness of God, to quiet our hearts in the expectation of the safety or benefits from him which we desire, rejecting the cares, and fears, and griefs that would disquiet them, if they had not the refuge of these hopes. It containeth in it a crediting the Word or nature of God, or judging it to be asufficient ground of our security and expectation: and then security and expectation built upon that ground, make up the rest of the nature of trust. Looking for the benefit, and finding a complacency and quietness of mind in the ground discovered, andceasing all other cares and fears, which would else disquiet us. Aquinas and other school-men, often call affiance, ' spes roborata,' a confirmed hope.
Richard Baxter, A Christian Directory