Matthew Poole and continuators on Romans 10:9

9. That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart, that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

q. d. There are but these two things, which the Gospel principally requires in order to our Salvation, The one is, the Confession of Christ with our mouths, and that in spight of all Persecution and Danger, to own Him for our Lord, and for our Iesus; and to declare, that we are and will be ruled and saved by him, and by him only. The other is to believe in our hearts, That God hath raised him from the Dead. This Article of the Resurrectioa of Christ, presupposeth all the rest, and fastneth together, as by a Link, all the Antecedents and Consequents of it; his Ascention, Session, at the right hand of God, and Intercession, which followed after. This Article therefore, by a Figure, is put for all the rest; and this is mentioned, because the death and passion of Christ, had availed us nothing, unless He had risen again; for thereby He obtained a perfect Victory over Sin, Death, and Damnation, for all the Elect. This is the principal Ground of our Iustification, as hath been said, chap. 4. ult.

Marginal references: Mat. 10.32.