Matthew Poole and continuators on John 20:29

29 Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me▪ thou hast believed : blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed ▪

Thou believest that I am risen from the dead, upon the testimony of thy senses, thou doest well in that, thou hast seen, thou hast felt me; but

it is a more noble faith to believe without any such sensible evidence. Faith is properly an assent given to a proposition, upon the testimony of Revelation, which if it be but human, it is no more than an human Faith; as we give credit to what our neighbours tell us, tho we have not seen it with our own eyes, nor heard it with our ears immediately, nor had it made evident to any of our senses. If the Revelation to which the assent is given be from God, we call the assent that is given to it a Divine faith: so that to give credit to a thing upon the evidence of sense, is properly no believing, otherwise than as sense confirms what we have before received by a Divine Revelation. This is a sure rule, that by how much our faith stands in lesser need of an external evidence of sense, the stronger it is.

Marginal references: 1 Pet. 1.8.