The Doctrine of Justification by Faith

1. The Doctrine of the Trinity it self is denied, impugned, yea derided by them, and that solely on this Account. They plead that it is incomprehensible by Reason; for there is in that Doctrine, a Declaration of things absolutely infinite and eternal, which cannot be exemplified in, nor accommodated unto things finite and temporal. This is the substance of all their pleas against the Doctrine of the Holy Trinity, that which gives a seeming life and sprightly vigour to their Objections against it; wherein yet under the pretence of the use and exercise of Reason, they fall and resolve all their reasonings into the most absurd and irrational principles that ever the minds of men were besotted withal. For unless you will grant them that what is above their Reason is therefore contradictory unto true Reason; that what is infinite and eternal ⟨p. 58⟩is perfectly comprehensible and in all its concerns and respects to be accounted for; that what cannot be in things finite and of a separate existence, cannot be in things infinite whose being and existence can be but one, with other such irrational yea brutish Imaginations, all the Arguments of these pretended men of Reason against the Trinity, become like Chaff that every Breath of Wind will blow away. Hereon they must as they do, deny the distinct Operations of any Persons in the Godhead in the Dispensation of the mystery of Grace. For if there are no such distinct Persons there can be no such distinct Operations. Now as upon a denial of these things no one Article of Faith can be rightly understood, nor any one Duty of Obedience be performed unto God in an acceptable manner, so in particular, we grant that the Doctrine of Justification by the Imputation of the Righteousness of Christ, cannot stand.

1. The Doctrine of the Trinity it self is denied, impugned, yea derided by them, and that solely on this Account. They plead that it is incomprehensible by Reason; for there is in that Doctrine, a Declaration of things absolutely infinite and eternal, which cannot be exemplified in, nor accommodated unto things finite and temporal. This is the substance of all their pleas against the Doctrine of the Holy Trinity, that which gives a seeming life and sprightly vigour to their Objections against it; wherein yet under the pretence of the use and exercise of Reason, they fall and resolve all their reasonings into the most absurd and irrational principles that ever the minds of men were besotted withall. For unless you will grant them that what is above their Reason is therefore contradictory unto true Reason; that what is infinite and eternal