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

2. We are obliged to believe those Mysteries that are plainly delivered in Scripture, notwithstanding those seeming Contradictions wherewith they may be charged. In the objects of Sense, the contrariety of appearances doth not lessen the certainty of things. The Stars to our sight seem but glittering Sparks, yet they are immense Bodies. And 'tis one thing to be assured of a Truth, another to answer all the difficulties that encounter it: A mean Understanding is capable of the first, the second is so difficult, that in clear things the profoundest Philosophers may not be able to untie all the intricate and knotty Objections which may be urged against them. 'Tis sufficient the Belief of Supernatural Mysteries is built on the Veracity and Power of God, this makes them prudently credible. This resolves all doubts, and produces such a stability of spirit as nothing can shake. A sincere Believer is assured, That all opposition against Revealed Truths is fallacious, though he cannot discover the Fallacy. Now the transcendent Mysteries of the Christian Religion, the Trinity of Persons in the Divine Nature, the Incarnation of the Son of God, are clearly and expressly set down in the Word, and although subtle and obstinate Opponents have used many guilty Arts to dispirit and enervate ⟨p. 138⟩those Texts of Scripture, in putting an inferior sense upon them, and have racked them with violence to make them speak according to their prejudices, yet all is in vain, the Evidence of Truth is victorious. A Heathen who considers not the Gospel as a Divine Revelation, but merely as a Doctrine delivered in Writing, and judges of its sense by natural Light, will acknowledge that those things are delivered in it. And notwithstanding those who usurp a Sovereign Authority to themselves, to judg of Divine Mysteries according to their own apprehensions, deny them as mere Contradictions, yet they can never conclude them impossible: For no certain Argument can be alleged against the being of a thing, without a clear knowledge of its nature: Now although we may understand the nature of Man, we do not the Nature of God, the Economy of the Persons, and his Power to unite himself to a Nature below Him.

2. We are obliged to believe those Mysteries that are plainly delivered in Scripture, notwithstanding those seeming Contradictions wherewith they may be charged. In the objects of Sense, the contrariety of appearances doth not lessen the certainty of things. The Stars to our sight seem but glittering Sparks, yet they are immense Bodies. And 'tis one thing to be assured of a Truth, another to answer all the difficulties that encounter it: A mean Understanding is capable of the first, the second is so difficult, that in clear things the profoundest Philosophers may not be able to untie all the intricate and knotty Objections which may be urged against them. 'Tis sufficient the Belief of Supernatural Mysteries is built on the Veracity and Power of God, this makes them prudently credible. This resolves all doubts, and produces such a stability of spirit as nothing can shake. A sincere Believer is assured, That all opposition against Revealed Truths is fallacious, though he cannot discover the Fallacy. Now the transcendent Mysteries of the Christian Religion, the Trinity of Persons in the Divine Nature, the Incarnation of the Son of God, are clearly and expresly set down in the Word, and although subtile and obstinate Opponents have used many guilty Arts to dispirit and enervate