in (itontríbíng . tietiernptíoaa; appearances doth not leffen the certainty of things. Ch. VII. The Stars to our fight Teem but glittering Sparks, yet they are immenfe Bodies. And 'tis one thing to be af- fured oC a Truth, another to anfwer all the difficulties that encounter it : A mean Underftanding is capable of the firft, the fecond is fo difficulit, that in clear things the profoundeft Philofophers may not be able to untie all the intricate and knotty Obje&ions which may be urged againft them. 'Tis fufficient the Belief of Sx- pernatural Myfteries is built on the Veracity and Power of God, this makes them prudently credible. This refolves all doubts, and produces fuch a frability of fpi- rit, as nothing can (hake. A fincere Believer is afiured, That all oppofition againft Revealed Truths is fallaci- ous, though he cannot difcover the Fallacy. Nowthe tranfcendent Myfleries of the Chriflian Religion, the Trinity of Perfons in the Divine Nature, the Incarna- tion of the Son ofGod, are clearly let down in the Scripture. And although fubtile and obftinate Oppo- nents have ufed many guilty Arts to dilpirit and ener- vate thole Texts by an inferiour fenfe, and have rackt them with violence to make them fpeak according to their prejudices,yet all is in vain, the Evidence ofTruth is vi&orious. A Heathen who confiders not the Gofpel as a Divine Revelation, but meerly as a Doctrine deli- vered in Writing, and judges of its fenfe by natural Light, will acknowledge that thole things are delive- red in it. And notwithftanding thofe whoufurp a So- vereign Authority to themfelves, to judge ofDivine Myfteries according to their own apprehenfìons, deny them as meer Contradiftions, yet they can never con- clude them impofíible: For no certain Argument can be alledged againft the being of a thing, without a clear knowledge of its nature : Now although we may underftan.d the nature of Mart, we do not the Nature of
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