An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…

Behold, is usually a note of attention, here it is more, a note ⟨p. 61⟩of admiration; as if he had said, Would you think it, that God puts no trust in his Saints? yet he doth not: or is not this a wonder, that God puts no trust in his Saints? whom will he trust, if not his Saints?¹

Behold, is usually a note of attention, here it is more, a note ⟨p. 61⟩of admiration; as if he had sayd, VVould you thinke it, that God puts no trust in his Saints? yet he doth not: or is not this a wonder, that God puts no trust in his Saints? whom will hee trust, if not his Saints?¹

1. 1[Greek or Hebrew] Vid. cap. 4.18. [Greek or Hebrew] Est credere tanquam rei fiddly & constanti aut fidele & constans cui credi debeat.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Vid. cap. 4.18. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Est credere tanquam rei fideli & constanti aut fidele & constans cui credi debeat.

The word which we translate, to put trust, signifies properly to believe, he doth not believe in his Saints, or not give credit to them; he doth not (as our word hath been) confide in them; a person is confided or trusted in, either because of his faithfulness, or because of his strength and stability; the word which we render here to trust, signifies sometimes strength or firmness, as also a Pillar, which is not only firm, but upholds and confirms the Building, or that which leans upon it. The same word doth elegantly signify, both to trust,¹