The saints support, set out in a sermon preached before the Honourable House of…

By the way take notice, that the mention which I made of the singular number, hath respect to the translation,¹ rather then to the original, especially in the title GOD. For the Hebrew word is one of those ten titles which in sacred Sacred Scripture are as names attributed to God; and it is of the plural number. As all the other titles have their significations and mysteries, so this. It importeth a plurality of persons: yet so as in construction it intimateth an unity,² an unity in nature, the unity of the Deity. For it is joined with a verb of the singular number: as in the first sentence of the Bible, which in other languages may imply some Grammatical incongruity; but it expresseth a true Orthodox, Theological Mystery: which God from the beginning would have to be known for his own glory and Churches good. For (even our enemies, worshippers of false gods being Judges) our God is such a God, as no other God could ever ⟨p. 9⟩be imagined like unto him. Many of Gods incommunicable properties and works have (though most unjustly and falsely) been attributed to false gods, as^h eternity,ⁱ omnipotency, ^kcreation of Heaven and Earth,^l divine providence, and other the like. But it never came into the mind of any Idolater to imagine his God to be three in one. The Trinity in Unity is a mystery of mysteries, making much to the honour of him that is known and believed to be such a God.

By the way take notice, that the mention which I made of the singular number, hath respect to the translation,¹ rather then to the originall, especially in the title GOD. For the Hebrew word is one of those ten titles which in sacred Sacred Scripture are as names attributed to God; and it is of the plurall number. As all the other titles have their significations and mysteries, so this. It importeth a plurality of persons: yet so as in construction it intimateth an unity,