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The second Article of faith toward God.
Question.
VVHat say you of faith toward God, which is the second Article of the Apostles Catechisme?
A. Three things.
First, what faith is.
Secondly, what God promiseth.
Thirdly, what we must beleeue.
Q. What is faith, or how describe you it?
A. Faith (resting vpon the promises of God declared in his word. Rom 10.17. is the ground of things hoped for, and the e∣uidence of things not seene. Heb. 11.1. for wee looke not at the things which are seene, but at the things which are not seene: for the things which are seene, are temporall, but the things which are not seene, are eternall. 2 Cor. 4.18. for eye hath not seene, care hath not heard, neither haue entred into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that loue him. 1. Corinthians 2.9. and therefore it is said in an other place, we