V. Conclusion.
He that hath begun to subiect himselfe to Christ and his word, though as yet he be ignorant in most points of religion: yet if he haue a care to increase in knowledge, & to practise that which he knoweth, he is accepted of God as a true beleeuer.
The Exposition.
SVndrie persons by the Euangelists are said to beleeue, which had onely seene the miracles of Christ, and as yet had made no further proceedings but to acknowledge Christ to be the Messias, & to submit themselues to him and his doctrine, which afterward should be taught. On this maner the wo∣man of Samaria beleeued, and many of the Samaritans vpon her report: & a certaine ruler, by reason of a miracle, wrought vpon his son, is said to beleeue, & all his houshould, Ioh. 4.42.52. when our Sauiour Christ commendeth the faith of the Apostles, tearming it a rock against which the gates of hel should not preuaile, it was not for the plētiful knowledge of the doctrine of saluatiō: