Matthew Poole and continuators on Hebrews 11:31

31 By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace.

By the same Gospel-Faith Rahab, who, as the Iews read the word, Iosh. 2.1. [non-Latin text not transcribed] was an Hostess, and kept an House of Entertainment, and so came to lodge the Spies: Or, as the Septuagint read it, and the Holy Ghost confirms it here, and Iames 2.25. was a publick Harlot, who gat her Livelihood by the Prostitution of her Body, as well as the Sale of Meat and Drink; so notorious a Sinner as she, and a Canaanite too, was preserved from the Destruction that was inflicted by the Israelites on the unbelieving and disobedient Inhabitants of Iericho, being, after her Exclusion out of the Camp, in order to a legal Purifying, admitted into God's Church, and honoured by him to be a Mother in Israel, from whom the Messiah should descend, Iosh. 6.23, 25.

The full Proof of her being a Believer, was her entertaining of the Spies sent from Ioshua to Iericho, preserving them when sought for, and dismissing them, advising them what they were to do in order to their safety, Iosh. 2.3, 10, to the end. The ground of all this, was her Faith in God's Promise of giving Canaan to Israel, confirmed by the great Works she heard God had done for them, and her own Expectation of Good only in the Portion of God's People, to whom she desired to be united, which was afterwards accomplished. Neither doth Paul and Iames contradict each other concerning her Faith and Works, Iames 2.25. For she was exempted from Destruction by the same Faith by which she was justified; and her Faith was justified to be sound and true, by her carriage to the Spies, for it was a full Demonstration of her Faith in God.

Marginal references: Or, that were disob[illegible: 1 letter]dient.