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52,
`Mat a
find
d
a»d
wei&e
faith
may
be
a truefaith.
beleeue, who
hearing
the
do'rine of
Chrifi,
and feeing
his-
miracles
beleeued,
and
acknowledged
him
to
be the true
Meflîas
and
their
Sauiour,
though at
the
fame
time they had
.
attained to
an exceeding fmall meafure
of
knowledge,
and
were
ignorant ofmany
of
the
chi efe
principles
ofChriflian-
religion,becaufe they
nourifhed
not
this
theirignorance,
but
refolued
to
vfe
all
thofe
good
meanes
of
increafing
in
knowledge which
God
hath ordained
for this
purpofe.
And
thus many
of
the Samaritanes
are
Paid
to
have beleeued
for
the
faying
of
the woman,
and becaufe
of
his owne
word.
Ioh.4. 39.41.
Ioh.4.39.41.
Thus
a
certaine rulerand
all his
houfehold
are
Ycr.$t,
faid
to
haue
beleeued, when they
law
the
miracle which
our.'
Sauiour
°wrought. in
curing the
rulers fonne
of
his
feauer:.
onely with
his word,verf
:52. Yea, the
Apoflles themfelues,,,
whole
faith our
SauiourChrifi
compareth
to
a
firme
rocke,
again(}
which the gates
of
hell
fhould
neuer'preuaile, were
notwithflanding
indued
N.vith
a
\weake
and
final
meafure
of
faith,before the
afcenfion
ofour
Sauiour, and
fending
ofthe
holy
Gb
oß For
they-were
ignorant
euen
ofthe
maine
prin-
ciples
ofChrifiian religion,and ofdiuers
articles
offaith,and
confequently could
not
beleeue,
affent,
or be perfwaded
of
thofe things
which
they did
not
vndcrfland.' For example,
Mact11,16.18.
howfoeucr
they-knew and
acknowledged
that
our Sauiour
ChrifT
was
the promifed
Meflîas,y
et they
were
ignorant
that
he fhould
redeeme
mankinde by
his
death;for
when
he
fore-
told that
he
fhould be
deli
uered
into
the hands
of
the
Gen-
tiles to
be crucified,-it
is:
Paid
that
they
vnderflood
none
of
142n11.10.
1.8.
thofe
thing
s,Mattb.2od
8,.
Luk.9.45.
So
alfo
they knew
not
Luk
9.41.
that
being
déad',he
fhould
rife
agaitie
the third day,as the E
....
Ma'k.9
;24
uangeliti fheweth,Matth.9.3
2.
And when they heard
there-
Lek.
:4.1
s.
ofby
the
women,they:thought it afaiued thing,as
it
is
Luk.
24.1.1.
Theywere ignorant
alfo
ofhis
afcenfion,as
appeareth
;. ;8.
loh.r3.36.and
14.
5:-
andofhiskingdome,fortheydreamed
end
r4...
oían
earthly kingdome,
and
of
worldly preferments which
AE2s
1.6.
they
were
to haueby
hün,as- we.may
fee,.A
a.6.IVIark.to.3 7.
ask.lo.37..
By
all
which
it
plainely
appeareth,
that though the
Apofiles
were indued with
a
true
faith, yet their faith
was exceeding
Iveak
alto
it
ismoíi:euident
in
that
reprehenfon.:
rfed