The harmony of the divine attributes in the contrivance and accomplishment of man's redemption…

2. There are some Doctrines, which as Reason by its light could not discover, so when they are made known, it cannot comprehend; but they are by a clear and necessary connection joined with the other that Reason approves. As the Mystery of the Trinity, and the Incarnation of the Son of God, which are the Foundations of the whole work of our Redemption. The Nature of God is repugnant to Plurality, there can be but one Essence, and the nature of Satisfaction requires a distinction of Persons: for he that suffers as guilty, must be distinguished from the person of the Judg that exacts Satisfaction; and no mere Creature is able by his obedient sufferings to repair the Honour of God, so that a Divine Person assuming the Nature of Man was alone capable to make that satisfaction, which the Gospel propounds and Reason consents to. Besides, 'tis clear that the Doctrine of the Trinity, that is, of three glorious Relations in the Godhead, and of the Incarnation, are most firmly connected with all the parts of the Christian Religion, left in the Writings of the Apostles, which as they were confirmed by Miracles, the Divine Signatures of their certainty, so they contain such authentic marks of their Divinity, that right Reason cannot reject them.

2. There are some Doctrines, which as Reason by its light could not discover, so when they are made known, it cannot comprehend; but they are by a clear and necessary connexion joyn'd with the other that Reason approves. As the Mystery of the Trinity, and the Incarnation of the Son of God, which are the Foundations of the whole work of our Redemption. The Nature of God is repugnant to Plurality, there can be but one Essence, and the nature of Satisfaction requires a distinction of Persons: for he that suffers as guilty, must be distinguish'd from the person of the Judg that exacts Satisfaction; and no meer Creature is able by his obedient sufferings to repair the Honour of God, so that a Divine Person assuming the Nature of Man was alone capable to make that satisfaction, which the Gospel propounds and Reason consents to. Besides, 'tis clear that the Doctrine of the Trinity, that is, of three glorious Relations in the Godhead, and of the Incarnation, are most firmly connected with all the parts of the Christian Religion, left in the Writings of the Apostles, which as they were confirmed by Miracles, the Divine Signatures of their certainty, so they contain such authentick marks of their Divinity, that right Reason cannot reject them.