The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatisesThe dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in severall treatises

Trust in the Lord with thy whole heart, saith the Old, Prov. 3.5. If thou believest with thy whole heart, saith the New, Acts 8.34, 37.

In thee, O Lord, have I trusted, let me not be confounded, saith the Old, Psal. 31.1. & 25.2. and, He that believeth on him shall not be ashamed, saith the New, Rom. 10.11. So that you see, that to Trust, and to Believe, are Synonima, import the same things; though they differ in name, yet not in nature: He that Trusteth Believeth, and he that Believeth Trusteth.

In which sense we have the phrases of believing in or upon, 1 Pet. 2.6. Behold, I lay in Zion a chief corner stone, and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded: Where, by believing on him, cannot be meant any thing, but a laying and building our selves upon Christ as the foundation, that we may be made a spiritual house; as you have it in Verse 4, 5. the like we have, Rom. 10.10.11. He that believeth on him: and so, 2 Tim. 1.12. For I know in whom I have believed, &c. [Greek or Hebrew]: Whence it is apparent, that to believe in God, is as much as to commit our selves to his trust: for so it there followeth, I am persuaded, that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him, or deposited with him, or delivered up unto his keeping to that day, that is, his soul to everlasting life: So that we see, that to believe in Christ, is with confidence and trust to rely upon him. And thus much for the formal act of faith.