3 l. 17Je Perfon of Chrifl tl;e moft Ineffable Heb. I I. I. The evidence of things . not feen ; that which makes -evident as by demonfiration, thofe things which are no way objected unto fenfe, and which reafon cannot com– prehend The more fublime and glorious, the more inac– ceilible unto fenfe and reafon are the things which we be· lieve, the more are we changed into the Image of God, in the exercife of Faith upon them: Hence we find this mofl: g\orious effect of Faith, or the transformation of the mind mto the likenefs of God, no lefs real evident and eminent in · many, whofe rationally comprehenftve Abilities are weak and contemptible in the eye of that Wifdom which is of this world, than in thofe of the higheft natural fagacity, en- , joying the beft ImprovementS- ofReafon. For God hath chd– fen the poor of this world rich in faith, ·and heirs of the King– dom, Jam. 2. 5. However they may be poor, and ~s another Apofl:le fpeaketh foolijh, weak, bafe and defpifed, I Cor. I .• 27, 28. yet that Faith which enables them to affent unto,and emb~ace Divine Myfteries, renders them rich in the fight of ·God, in that it makes them like unto him. Some would have all things that we are to believe to be levelled abfolutely unto our Reafon and Comprehen.. fion, a principle which at this day fuakes the very Foun– dations of Chrifrian Religion. It is not rufficient they fay to determine that the Faith or Knowledge of auy thing is necef– fary unto our Obedience and £alvation, that it feems to be fully and perf11icuoufly revealed in the Scripture ; unlefs the things fo revealed be obvious and comprehenfible unto our Reafon. An apprehenfion, which as it arifeth from the Pride which naturally enfues on the ignorance of God and our felves ; fo it is not only an invention fuited to debafe Reli· gion, but an Engine to evert the Faith of the Church in all the principal Myfieries of the Gofpel, efpecially of the Tri– nity and Incarnation uf the Son ofGod. But Faith which is tndy
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