Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Corinthians 4:13

13 We having the same spirit of faith according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak.

The same Spirit of Faith signifieth the same Faith, or Faith proceeding from the same Spirit; thus, the Spirit of Wisdom and Vnderstanding, the Spirit of Counsel and Might, the Spirit of Knowledge, and of the Fear of the Lord, signifieth Wisdom, Vnderstanding, Counsel, Might, Knowledge, &c. 'Tis a Question, whom the Apostle meaneth when he saith, We having the same Faith? Some think, he meaneth the Saints under the Old Testament, whose Faith was the same with the Faith of Believers under the New Testament; and that which guideth them to that Interpretation, is the Apostles following quotation out of Psal. 116.10. But the scope of the quotation seemeth to be, to prove that all good men will speak as they believe; they therefore seem better to interpret the Text, that make this the sense of it. Though God, in the Wisdom of his Providence, hath assigned us in this World a different lot from you▪ that you are full, we empty; you in prosperity, we in adversity; yet we are partakers of the same Faith with you, and are acted from the same Spirit that you are: and as Davids Spirit guided him to a profession of his Faith, and a speaking what he believed; so we also speak, and must speak according to what we believe. And this is manifestly the sense of the words, if we consider what followeth in the next Verse▪