ftt «onítfbfng an'z3acticniption, 1 2 3 s. There are fome Dotrines, which as Reafon by Ch. VII. its light could not difcover, fo when they are made u-V- known, itcannot comprehend ; but they are by a clear and neceffary connexion joyn'd with the other that Reafon approves. As the Myftery of the Trinity, and the Incarnation of the Son of God, which are the Foundations of the whole work of our Redemption. The Nature of God is repugnant to Plurality, there can be but one E nce, and the nature of SatisfaEtion requires a diftinêtion of Perlons : for he that fuflers as guilty, muff be diftingui(h'd from the perfon of the Judge that exats Satisfa6tion; and no meer Creature is able by his obedient fufferings to repair the Honour of God: fo that a Divine Perlon aflùming the Nature of Man was alone capable to make that fatisfation, which the Gofpel propounds and Reafon confents to. Now according to the diftintion of capacities in the Trinity, The Father requir'd anhonourable reparation for the breachof the Divine Law, and the Son bore thepunithment in the fufferings of the humane Nature ; that is peculiarly his own. Befides, 'tis clear that the Dotrine of the Trinity, that is, of three glorious Relations in the God-head, and of the Incarnation, are moll firmlyconneted with all the parts ofthe Chriftian Religion, left in the Writings of the Apoflles, which as they were confirmed by Miracles, the Divine sig- natures of their certainty, fo they contain fuch authen- tick marks of their Divinity, that right Reafon cannot rejet them. 3. Whereas there are three Principles by which we apprehend things , Senfe , Reafon and Faith". thefe lights have their different objets that mutt not be cbnfouuded. Sen/e is confin'd to things material, Reafon confiders things abflratted from matter, Faith regards the ìíyfleries revealed from Heaven : and thefe I;. 2 muff
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