The four last things viz. death, judgment, heaven, hell, practically considered and applied in…

We shall then see what we now believe concerning the glorious Nature of God, his Decrees and Counsels, his Providence and Dispensations. The sublimest Doctrine of the Christian Religion, above the disquisition and reach of Reason, is that of the Sacred Trinity, upon which the whole Economy of the Gospel depends. In assenting to this, Faith bows the Head and adores. But such is the pride of the Carnal Mind, that it disdains to stoop to Divine Revelation: and the seeming wise Philosophers despised the Primitive Christians as Captives of a blind Belief. But this foul Reproach was as unjust as many others wherewith they designed to disgrace Christianity; for the humility of Faith does not extinguish or darken the Light of Reason, but revives and increases it: what is more suitable to uncorrupt Reason, than to believe the Revelation God affords of his own Nature who cannot deceive us? In the State above, where reason is rectified and enlarged, we shall understand that from Eternity God was sole existing, but not solitary; that the Godhead is not confused in Unity, nor divided in number; that ⟨p. 294⟩there is a priority of Order, but no superiority among the Sacred Persons, but they are all equally possessed of the same Divine Excellencies, and the same Divine Empire, and are the Object of the same Divine Adoration. Our Saviour tells his Disciples, In that Day ye shall know, that I am in the Father, that is by unity of Essence, and as naturally and necessarily God as the Father. This Promise immediately refers to the time of pouring forth the Holy Ghost upon them, after the Resurrection of our Saviour, but shall be fully accomplished in Heaven.

We shall then see what we now believe concerning the glorious Nature of God, his Decrees and Counsels, his Providence and Dispensations. The sublimest Doctrine of the Christian Religion, above the disquisition and reach of Reason, is that of the Sacred Trinity, upon which the whole Oeconomy of the Gospel depends. In assenting to this, Faith bows the Head and adores. But such is the pride of the Carnal Mind, that it disdains to stoop to Divine Revelation: and the seeming wise Philosophers despised the Primitive Christians as Captives of a blind Belief. But this foul Reproach was as unjust as many others wherewith they designed to disgrace Christianity; for the humility of Faith does not extinguish or darken the Light of Reason, but revives and increases it: what is more suitable to uncorrupt Reason, than to believe the Revelation God affords of his own Nature who cannot deceive us? In the State above, where reason is rectified and inlarged, we shall understand that from Eternity God was sole existing, but not solitary; that the Godhead is not confus'd in Unity, nor divided in number; that