Spiritual Perfc on. i 39 nor Ear heard, and tranfcend the capa- city of the Imagination to conceive, and of the external Senfes to reprefent : Yet Infidels blafpheme the Eternal Truths of DivineThings, as the fiaions of Fancy.' 2. Faith is diffinguiíh'd from Science, acquired by Study , and from Reafon. Reafon implies a progrefs from one de- gree of Knowledge to another, by con- fequences drawn from the firfi to the fecond : But Faith affents to things up- on the account of fuperiour Authority that reveals them, and commands us to believe them. The fame things may be the Qbjeas of Faith and of Reason, but in different refpeas : Reafon may dif- cover them, by afcending from effeas totheir caufes, or defcending from caufes to their effeas : Faith receives them as revealed in Scripture; By Faithwe know 1eb. írß the Worlds were made ; which may be proved by clear Reafon. 2. The Objeas of Faith. The gene- ral Obje.f of Faith is the Wordof God ; the fpecial, are thofe Do&rines, and Pro- mifes, and Things, that Reafon cannot difcover by its own Light, nor perfeEUy underhand when revealed. The Word of God contains a Narrative of things paff, and Prediaionsof things to come The deftruaion of the old World by a deluge of Waters, and the confamption
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