Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment

so this little volume of the Scriptures, designing the glory of God, and the promoting of his Interest in the hearts of Men, and the Pen-men employed in the writing thereof, not in the least pretending, that what they wrote, was the invention of their own brain, doth evidence God himself to be the Author of this Book. Wherefore the Scriptures being so clear in their discoveries of the one true God, and setting him forth more gloriously than any other Book, and ascribing all praise and honour to him, and appointing all religious worship to be given to him only, and designing his glory throughout the whole, doth evince that the Scriptures are indeed the Word of God.

2. The second Character of Divinity in the Scripture is, the sublime mysteries therein revealed; namely concerning the Trinity of Persons in one nature and essence of God; the hypostatical union of the ⟨p. 177⟩two natures of God and Man in one person of Christ; the mystical union of Christ and his members, and the like; which mysteries are so sublime, so high, that no mortal Man of the highest reason, and most elevated understanding could possibly invent, in as much as no• they are revealed, they exceed the capacity of the most enlightened to understand: especially if we further consider by whom these mysteries were revealed; not by the great Scholars, and subtle Philosophers of the World; not by them who were brought up in Schools, and had conversed with Books and learned Men; not by Men of high parts, who had polished their reason, and heightened their understandings by all possible humane helps▪ but the most of the Pen-men of the Scripture, especially those by whom the greatest mysteries are revealed, were Fisher-men, Publicans, and the like; Men of mean education, illiterate Men; Men of no reading, and of but mean natural abilities; as appears not only by the history, but also by the stile of their writings; which hath not that politeness as is to be found in many humane Authors; which doth not run in such a golden stream of eloquence, neither is dressed with such neatnesses of wit, nor garnished with such flowers of Rhetoric; which is not methodized by the rules of Logic, nor interlarded with any peepings of humane wisdom; which doth not savour of high parts, and great natural ingenuity, or give the least suspicion of cunning and subtlety, which these Men had above others; But some of the highest mysteries of divinity are set forth by these Pen men in a passing-mean and home-spun dress, yea they are left even naked and bare of such apparel, as the ingenuous