I2 8 yodand Chrif is the onelyobject oftrue confidence. BeUar. de ChriFf. cap.5. CatecFi. . 11411.1. cap.rr. 9.'9. ßhern...lnnot. in `kóm.ao 14. Exod.14.3r. z Chron.zo.zo. Deut zß.66. Job z4.zz Efay 33.15. r Sam.z742. Jona.35. Przt.z 96:E2. come : But in nature the objet of their faith is one and the fame. Our Adverfaries confefpe thus much ; Bellarmineproves Chritl tobeGod, becaufé it is written ofhim, Blefed are they that put their trust in him : And theScripture, faith he,teacheth everie where, that wemutt put our trufl in the true God alone. The Romane Catechifine teacheth, that we beleeve theholy Church, not in the Church : by which divers forme, of(peaking, lay they, God the Creatour is diflinguithed from things created. But the Rhemists in defence of their Saint-invocation, are driven to fay, that wee are to trufl in the Saintsdeparted, and that the Scrip- tureufeth alfo this fpeech, tobeieeve in men, as, They 6e- leeved inthe Lord, andin his fervant Mofes : Beleeve in the Lord, and yee ¡hall be eftablifhed, beleeve inhù Pro- phets, d-c. This is their firtl pretence, whereby they feeke to cover their idolatrie, whereas they might eafily have known, that the Vulgar and the Seventie both tranflate thefe places,They beleevedMofes,and beleeve his Prophets: andnot, they beleeved in Mores, beleeve in his Prophets. Andit iscertaine, theprépofition here added inHebrew, dothnot ever anfrver to In,input language. What ? thatit is no leffe than blafphemie to íáy, that the Ifraelites were commanded toput their confidence in Mofesand the Pro- phets, eitheras the principali authors and parentsofany good, or as Mediators betwixt God and them, by and through whole mediation they fhould obtaine all good things 1pirituali and temporali.. For fo they fhould have made them their arme, who were but flefh. What is al- !edged out ofExodue, (.Mofes fpeaketh in reproach ofthe Ifraelites, whobeleeved neither the Lord, nor Mofes, tou- ching the promife of their deliverie out of :(Egypt, untili filch time as theyhaving quite paired the Red Sea, did fee their enemies dead in theSea. And though they beleeved the truth of theLord, and the word of his fervant, when they had the accomplifhment of his promife; yet they did not confidently betake themfelves to the Lord, as their
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