because impossible, for man to utter. And saith Christ to the
reasoning Pharisee, "If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe
not, how shall you believe if I tell you of heavenly things?" It is
great lewdness, and also insufferable arrogancy, to come to the Word of
God, as conceiting already that whatever thou readest must either by
thee be understood, or of itself fall to the ground as a senseless
error. But God is wiser than man, wherefore fear thou him, and tremble
at his word, saying still, with godly suspicion of thine own infirmity,
What I see not, teach thou me; and, Thou art God only wise; but as for
me, I am as a beast before thee.

3. Take heed of taking a part of the Word only, lest thou thereby go
away with the truth as mangled in pieces. For instance, where thou
readest, "The Lord our God is one Lord," there take heed that thou dost
not thence conclude, then there are not three persons in the Godhead:
when thou readest of "the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit," then
take heed of concluding there must therefore either be three Gods, or
else that Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost are not true God, but the
Father only. Wherefore to help thee here, observe,

II. The second preparative.

1. That the Christian religion requireth credit concerning every
doctrine contained in the Word; credit, I say, according to the true
relation of every sentence that the Holy Ghost hath revealed for the
asserting, maintaining, or vindicating that same truth.

2. And therefore, hence it is that a Christian is not called a doer, a
reasoner, an objector, and perverse disputer, but a believer. Be thou
an example to "the believers;" and, "believers" were "added to the