your weakness too, and your utter inability to withstand that roaring lion that seeketh to devour you. What then would you do, if you were left to preserve yourselves by the unas- sisted efforts of your own strength and resolution ? To you it is no little joy to be assured, that you are in the hands of an Omnipotent Being, against whom neither earth nor hell shall ever be able to prevail, and who engages in your behalf, that you shall never perish1. Learn then to "cast your care on Him," and to commit the keeping of your souls to Him in well-doing, as into the hands of a faithful Creator's "]
i 1 John iv. 4. k 1 Pet. iv. 19.
John x. 30. / and my Father are one.
IT might well be expected, that, if God should reveal his will to man, there would be many things disclosed by him, which exceed the narrow limits of human reason. This might more particularly be expected in whatsoever related to his own person and character : for, as we can know nothing of him any farther than he is pleased to reveal himself to us ; and as we cannot even comprehend our own nature, or discover how the soul is united to the body ; it would be strange indeed if we could comprehend the mode of God's existence, and explain how there should be an union of Three Persons in the God- head. In relation to such a mysterious subject, our wisdom is to ascertain what God has revealed con- cerning himself, and to receive it on the testimony of his word. This is the office of reason, as well as of faith : for reason requires, that we submit our under- standing to the dictates of His wisdom, no less than our wills to the influence of His authority. That a Trinity of Persons in the Godhead is revealed, cannot reason- ably be doubted, as long as the baptismal rite shall continue to be administered " in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost ;" for to imagine, that a creature is here associated with Almighty God in the highest possible act of divine