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IT is (though somewhat fabulously)* 1.1 recorded, that when St. Augustine was writing of the blessed Trinity, walking by the Sea-side, he saw a little child dig∣ging a hole in the ground, and taking water with a spoon out of the Sea, powred it
into the hole; S. Augustine demanded of the Childe, why he did so, and he answered; that he would lade the whole Sea into it; The Sea, said he, is too great, and the hole, the spoon and the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 too little▪ To whom the Childe replyed thus; Iust so art thou, to write of the holy Trinity, and so vanished: Thus, Whosoever thou art, Canst thou empty the Ocean of this great mystery into thy Oyster-shell? Canst thou define, how the Begetter should not be before the Begotten? Canst thou dream how Generation and Proceeding differ? How there should be a Trinity in uni∣ty, and unity in Trinity, Three in One, and One in Three? This is a mystery of my∣steries, not farre to be dived into;* 1.2 It is impossible to sound the bottomlesse depth of such divine mysteries with the plumme•• of our short lived and short ly••'d Reason, or think to pierce the Marble hardnesse of Gods secrets, with the leaden point of our dull apprehension, yet so farre as the Scriptures have revealed necessarily to be understood, we may look into it; And to be sure, He that hath two or three walks a day upon Mount Tabo••, and with holy Moses, converseth with God in three Persons, on the Horeb of both ••estaments, shall find the peace of God the Fa∣ther, the love of God the Sonne, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, to his eternall comfort.
Laurent. Suri∣us in vita S. Ang. 28
Inquirere de Trinita••e perve•• sa cuirositas est; sed credere & tenere 〈◊〉〈◊〉 san∣cta Eccle••••••, ••••∣des & securitas est. Bern. in separat. Serm.