do? He said unto them_, (Acts, ii. 38): _Amend your lives, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins_. Rom. x. 9: _If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thy heart, that God raised him up from the dead, thou shalt be saved_. To these places may be added, that wheresoever our Saviour Christ doth approve the faith of any man, the proposition believed, if the same be to be collected out of the text, is always some of these fundamental points before mentioned, or something equivalent: as the faith of the centurion (Matth. viii. 8): _Speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed_; believing he was omnipotent: the faith of the woman, which had an issue of blood, (Matth. ix. 21): _If I may but touch the hem of his garment_; implying, he was the Messiah: the faith required of the blind men, (Matth. ix. 28): _Believe you that I am able to do this?_ the faith of the Canaanitish woman, (Matth. xv. 22), that he was the _Son of David_, implying the same. And so it is in every one of those places, none excepted, where our Saviour commendeth any man’s faith, which because they are too many to insert here, I omit, and refer them to his inquisition that is not otherwise satisfied. And as there is no other faith required, so there was no other preaching: for the prophets of the Old Testament preached no other; and John the Baptist preached only the approach of the kingdom of heaven, that is to say, of the kingdom of Christ. The same was the commission of the apostles (Matth. x. 7): _Go preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand_. And Paul preaching amongst the Jews, (Acts, xviii. 5), did but testify unto the Jews, that _Jesus was the Christ_. And the heathens took notice of Christians no otherwise, but by this name, that they believed _Jesus to be a king_, crying out, (Acts, xvii. 6, 7): _These are they that have subverted the state of the world, and here they are, whom Jason hath received. And these all do against the decrees of Cæsar, saying, that there is another king, one Jesus._ And this was the sum of the predictions, the sum of the confessions of them that believed, as well men as devils. This was the title of his cross, _Jesus of Nazareth, king of the Jews_; this the occasion of the crown of thorns, sceptre of reed, and a man to carry his cross; this was the subject of the _Hosannas_; and this was the title, by which our Saviour, commanding to take another man’s goods, bade them say, _The Lord hath need_; and by this title he purged the temple of the profane market kept there. Nor did the apostles themselves believe any more than that _Jesus was the Messiah_, nor understand so much; for they understood the Messiah to be no more than a temporal king, till after our Saviour’s resurrection. Furthermore, this point, that _Christ is the Messiah_, is particularly set forth for _fundamental_ by that word, or some other equivalent thereunto in divers places. Upon the