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

'Tis true no Article of Faith is really repugnant to Reason, for God is the Author of Natural, as well as of Supernatural Light, and He cannot contradict Himself: they are emanations from Him, and though different, yet not destructive of each other. But we must distinguish between those things that are above Reason and incomprehensible, and those things that are against Reason and utterly inconceivable: Some things are above Reason in regard of their transcendent excellency, or distance from us; the Divine Essence, the Eternal Decrees, the Hypostatical Union are such high and glorious objects, that it is an impossible enterprise to comprehend them: the intellectual Eye is dazzled with their overpowering Light. We can have but an imperfect ⟨p. 139⟩knowledge of them: And there is no just cause of wonder that Supernatural Revelation should speak incomprehensible things of God. For He is a singular and admirable Being, infinitely above the ordinary course of Nature. The Maxims of Philosophy are not to be extended to Him. We must adore what we cannot fully understand: But those things are against Reason, and utterly inconceivable, that involve a contradiction, and have a natural repugnancy to our Understandings, which cannot conceive any thing that is formally impossible: And there is no such Doctrine in the Christian Religion.

'Tis true no Article of Faith is really repugnant to Reason, for God is the Author of Natural, as well as of Supernatural Light, and He cannot contradict Himself: they are emanations from Him, and though different, yet not destructive of each other. But we must distinguish between those things that are above Reason and incomprehensible, and those things that are against Reason and utterly inconceivable: Some things are above Reason in regard of their transcendent excellency, or distance from us; the Divine Essence, the Eternal Decrees, the Hypostatical Union are such high and glorious objects, that it is an impossible enterprise to comprehend them: the intellectual Eye is dazled with their overpowring Light. We can have but an imperfect ⟨p. 139⟩knowledg of them: And there is no just cause of wonder that Supernatural Revelation should speak incomprehensible things of God. For He is a singular and admirable Being, infinitly above the ordinary course of Nature. The Maxims of Philosophy are not to be extended to Him. We must adore what we cannot fully understand: But those things are against Reason, and utterly inconceivable, that involve a contradiction, and have a natural repugnancy to our Understandings, which cannot conceive any thing that is formally impossible: And there is no such Doctrine in the Christian Religion.