The divine will considered in its eternal decrees, and holy execution of them. By…

Those who judge it their safest course in heavenly Mysteries to captivate their Understandings unto the obedience of Faith, and to regulate their apprehensions about them by divine Revelation, with a due reverence of the infinite Wisdom and Sovereignty of God, can discern nothing in the reasoning contrary to what they have so learned, that is of weight with them or takes any impression on their minds; when others, who proceed upon and make their own inclinations, desires and Reason the ⟨image 5⟩Rule and Measure of their Conceptions, forcing divine Revelation and Mysteries into compliance with them, have no valuation of those Arguments which are resolved purely into divine Revelation, as representing an Idea of God, his Excellency, his will and his Power, unsuited unto what in themselves they conceive of them: but it will be found that as God, who alone perfectly knows himself, and all the effects of his Wisdom and Power, can alone give us true notices and apprehensions of them, so it will be found that it is our wisdom and understanding to confine our conceptions about them, and Faith concerning them unto divine Revelations. And whatever contradictions there may be therein unto the carnal Affections of men, there is none indeed unto right Reason, when ⟨image 6⟩the infinite distance between God and us is once really admitted and acknowledged. Of these things treateth the ensuing Discourse, if I mistake not, in words of truth and soberness, for the substance of what is pleaded therein; and I could not but upon the first view judge it both useful and needful unto the present season. For whereas the Truths here declared and contended for, have in former Ages been opposed with more subtlety, diligence and specious pretences, than of late by any; yet being never that I have observed treated with more rage, contempt and scorn, the common way whereby men supply their defects in Learning and Ability, to oppose what they dislike and condemn, the worthy Author hath handled them with that gravity and modesty, with that particular regard unto express ⟨image 6⟩divine Testimonies, as is best suited to rebuke unchristian Virulency about sacred things, without taking any notice of them. And sundry things in perusal of his Discourse I take no small satisfaction in;