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have been revealed to us ; seeing we had neither ca- 

 pacity to apprehend, nor language to express it : or, 

 had it been miraculously revealed to a particular 

 man, yet it would not have been possible for him to 

 utter it. This made it necessary to adapt all the 

 Divine revelations to our natural way of thinking 

 and speaking ; and, accordingly, we are not obliged 

 to believe any doctrine which is not plain and intelli- 

 gible. AH in scripture, beyond this, is no immediate 

 object of our faith, but belongs to another world ; 

 and we are, at present, to believe no more of it than 

 that it is incomprehensible. 



Nothing, therefore, is more absurd than, the ob- 

 jections of unbelievers against the Christian myste- 

 ries, as unintelligible ; since christiany requires our 

 assent to nothing, but what is plain and intelligible 

 in every proposition. Let every man first have a 

 full conviction of the truth of each proposition in the 

 gospel, as far only as it is plain and intelligible, and 

 let him believe as far as he understands. Let him 

 firmly believe there is but one God, the object of 

 any divine worship whatever ; and think and speak 

 of him under that plain, scriptural distinction, of 

 Father, Son, and Holy Ghost ; leaving the incom- 

 prehensible nature of that union and distinction, to 

 the great Author of our faith himself. Let him be- 

 lieve Christ to be the only begotten Son of God, in 

 the obvious import of these words, and leuve the 

 manner of that inconceivable generation to the vera- 

 city of God. Let him believe, that Christ did as 

 truly make an atonement to God for us, as one man 



