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(2.) I know, implies Certainty of Persuasion. This is either, Certainty of Faith, or of Spiritual Sense.

(2.) I know, implies Certainty of Perswasion. This is either, Certainty of Faith, or of Spiritual Sense.

First, Of Faith, which depends on the Certainty of God's Revelation; that was either the general Promise in Paradise, Gen. 3. 15. God had said, The Seed of the Woman shall break the Serpents Head. Now upon this Promise Job is as confident of a Redeemer, as if he had seen him with his bodily Eyes. Thus Abraham is said to have seen Christ's Day, John 8. 56. And, Heb. 11. 13. These all died in Faith, not having received the Promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them. Or his Faith was built upon some particular Revelation; Heb. 1. 1. God, who at sundry times, and by divers manners, spake unto the Fathers by the Prophets. They had a sufficient Discovery of the Redeemer to be a Ground of Faith. Certain it is, the Eyes of Believers were then upon him. We are told, that Christ was the Lamb slain from the Foundation of the World, Rev. 13. 8. He is set forth in Prophecies and Types. Now Faith is the ⟨p. 220⟩Evidence of Things not seen; not seen by Sense, but clearly seen in the Promise. He was the Joy of all Ages, even of those that lived before he came in the Flesh. The same is true after the Coming of Christ, as well as before; for we believe in him whom we have not seen, 1 Pet. 1. 3