those Texts of Scripture, in putting an inferiour sense upon them, and have rackt them with violence to make them speak according to their prejudices, yet all is in vain, the Evidence of Truth is victori∣ous. A Heathen who considers not the Gospel as a Divine Revelation, but meerly as a Doctrine deli∣vered in Writing, and judges of its sense by natural Light, will acknowledg that those things are deli∣vered in it. And notwithstanding those who usurp a Sovereign Authority to themselves, to judg of Divine Mysteries according to their own apprehen∣sions, deny them as meer Contradictions, yet they can never conclude them impossible: For no certain Argument can be alledged against the being of a thing, without a clear knowledg of its nature: Now although we may understand the nature of Man, we do not the Nature of God, the Oeconomy of the Persons, and his Power to unite himself to a Nature below Him.'Tis true no Article of Faith is really repugnant to Reason, for God is the Author of Natural, as well as of Supernatural Light, and He cannot con∣tradict Himself: they are emanations from Him, and though different, yet not destructive of each other. But we must distinguish between those things that are above Reason and incomprehensible, and those things that are against Reason and utterly inconceivable: Some things are above Reason in regard of their transcendent excellency, or distance from us; the Divine Essence, the Eternal Decrees, the Hypostatical Union are such high and glorious objects, that it is an impossible enterprise to com∣prehend them: the intellectual Eye is dazled with their overpowring Light. We can have but an im∣perfect 0