Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 8:37

37 And Philip said, Is thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said. I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.

A verbal profession is not a sufficient believing, Rom. 10.10. tho we can discern no other, yet God can, and will not be mocked; Philip in Gods name requires a faith with all the heart, and not such as Simon Magus had, who is said to believe, and be baptized, ver. 13.

This was the onely thing necessary, either then or now, if rightly understood: The Eunuch was instructed concerning God out of the Law, and was one of them that waited for his Salvation; which here he acknowledgeth to be onely found in Christ, whom he owns to be the Messiah, who made his Soul an offering for sin, Isaiah 53.10. and did bear our griefs; and carried our sorrows, ver. 4. and was wounded for our transgressions, Isaiah 53. for all these things Philip had told him, were meant of our Saviour, which he did believe were so to be understood.

Marginal references: Mat. 16.16. [illegible: 1 word] 6.69. [illegible: 1 word] 11.27. Chap. 9.20. 1 John 4.15. and 5.5.