(2.) Some satisfaction of mind, things being right, as we apprehend, but falsely, through the deceitfulness of the heart.
(3.) Something like assurance and confidence, that all will be right with us.
(4.) And hope founded thereupon, which may help to ride through some storms, and yet fail us at length.
III. The third general is this, Christ Jesus is not only the truth in himself, but also in reference to us. The scope of the place cleareth this, as he is the way and the life for our use, so he is the truth. Not only as God equal with the Father, but also as Mediator, and our Immanuel.
As God, he is, 1. Essentially truth, being God equal with the Father in power and glory.
2. In respect of veracity, he is the God of truth, Deut. xxxii. 4; faithful in all his sayings, Ps. xxxi. 5; keeping truth for ever, Ps. cxlvi. 6.
3. He is the fountain and spring-head of all created truth, for he is the first truth.
As Mediator, and in reference to us, "he is full of grace and truth," John i. 14; "he received not the Spirit in measure," John iii. 34; and this Spirit is a Spirit of truth. But of this more, when we come to shew more particularly, how and in what respects he is called the truth, as Mediator.
IV. The fourth general, which is here observable, is, that he is not only called "Truth," but "the Truth," as he is the way and the life; and not only true, but truth in the abstract. Which saith,
1. That he is every way Truth, however we consider him, as God, or as Mediator.