Let now any one who owns the Scripture to be the Word of God, to contain an infallible Revelation of the things proposed in it to be believed, and who hath any conscience exercised towards God for the receiving and submitting unto what he declares and reveals, take a view of these Testimonies, and consider whether they do not sufficiently propose this Object of our faith. Shall a few poor trifling Sophisms, whose terms are scarcely understood, by the most that amongst us make use of them, according as they have found them framed by others, be thought meet to be set up in opposition unto ⟨p. 53⟩these multiplied Testimonies of the Holy Ghost, and to cast the Truth confirmed by them down from its credit and reputation in the consciences of men. For my part, I do not see in any thing, but that the Testimonies given to the Godhead of Christ, the Eternal Son of God, are every way as clear and unquestionable, as those are, which testify to the Being of God, or that there is any God at all. Were men acquainted with the Scriptures as they ought to be, and as the most, considering the means and advantages they have had, might have been, did they ponder and believe on what they […], or had any tenderness in their consciences as to that Reverence, Obedience, and Subjection of soul, which God requires unto his Word, it were utterly impossible that their faith in this matter should ever in the least be shaken, by a few lewd Sophisms, or loud clamours of men destitute of the truth, and of the Spirit of it.
Let now any one who owns the Scripture to be the Word of God, to contain an infallible Revelation of the things proposed in it to be believed, and who hath any conscience exercised towards God for the receiving and submitting unto what he declares and reveals, take a view of these Testimonies, and consider whether they do not sufficiently propose this Object of our faith. Shall a few poor trifling Sophisms, whose terms are scarcely understood, by the most that amongst us make use of them, according as they have found them framed by others, be thought meet to be set up in opposition unto ⟨p. 53⟩these multiplyed Testimonies of the Holy Ghost, and to cast the Truth confirmed by them down from its credit and reputation in the consciences of men. For my part, I do not see in any thing, but that the Testimonies given to the Godhead of Christ, the Eternal Son of God, are every way as clear and unquestionable, as those are, which testifie to the Being of God, or that there is any God at all. Were men acquainted with the Scriptures as they ought to be, and as the most, considering the means and advantages they have had, might have been, did they ponder and believe on what they 〈…〉, or had any tenderness in their consciences as to that Reverence, Obedience, and Subjection of soul, which God requires unto his Word, it were utterly impossible that their faith in this matter should ever in the least be shaken, by a few lewd Sophisms, or loud clamours of men destitute of the truth, and of the Spirit of it.
