Two treatises tending to awaken secure sinners viz., 1. The terror of the day…

Answ. The Contradictions were in your fancy, that did not understand the Word which you read. Must the raw unexperienced Learner despise his Book or Teacher, as oft as in his Ignorance he thinks he meets with Contradictions? Did you think God was no wiser than you, and understood not himself, because you understood him not? Nor could reconcile his own Words, because you could not reconcile them? You would needs be a Judg of the Law, instead of obeying it, and speak evil of it rather than do it, Jam. 4. 11.

2. And those things which you called improbable in the Word, were the Wonders of God, of purpose to confirm it. If it had not been confirmed by Wonders, you would have thought it unproved; and yet now it is so confirmed, you will not believe the Doctrine, because the Witness seems incredible. And that is, because they are Matters above the Power of Man: as if they were therefore above the Power of God! You shall at last have your Eyes so far opened, as to see those seeming Contradictions reconciled, and the certainty of those things which you accounted improbable: that you may be forced to confess the Folly of ⟨p. 51⟩your Arrogancy and Unbelief: and then God will judg you in Righteousness, who presumed unrighteously to judg him and his Word.

2. And those things which you called improbable in the Word, were the Wonders of God, of purpose to confirm it. If it had not been confirmed by Wonders, you would have thought it unproved; and yet now it is so confirmed, you will not believe the Doctrine, because the Witness seems incredible. And that is, because they are Matters above the Power of Man: as if they were therefore above the Power of God! You shall at last have your Eyes so far opened, as to see those seeming Contradictions reconciled, and the certa•nty of those things which you accounted improbable: that you may be forced to confess the Folly of ⟨p. 51⟩