three persons: this I learn from
Revelation alone. Nor is it any objection to this belief that I
cannot comprehend how _one_ can be _three_, or _three_ _one_. I
hold it my duty to believe, not what I can comprehend or
account for, but what my Maker teaches me.

I believe the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be
the will and word of God.

I believe Jesus Christ to be the Son of God. The miracles which
He wrought establish in my mind His personal authority, and
render it proper for me to believe whatever He asserts; I
believe, therefore, all His declarations, as well when He
declares Himself the Son of God as when He declares any other
proposition. And I believe there is no other way of salvation
than through the merits of His atonement.

I believe that things past, present, and to come are all
equally present in the mind of the Deity; that with Him there
is no succession of time nor of ideas; that, therefore, the
relative terms past, present, and future, as used among men,
cannot, with strict propriety, be applied to Deity. I believe
in the doctrines of foreknowledge and predestination, as thus
expounded. I do not believe in those doctrines as imposing any
fatality or necessity on men's actions, or any way infringing
free agency.

I believe in the utter inability of any human being to work out
his own salvation without the constant aids of the Spirit of
all grace.

I believe in those great peculiarities of the Christian
religion,--a resurrection from the dead and a day of judgment.

I believe in the universal providence of God; and leave to
Epicurus, and his more unreasonable followers in modern times,
the inconsistency of believing that God made a world which He
does not take the trouble of governing.

Although I have great respect for some other forms of worship,
I believe the Congregational mode, on the whole, to be
preferable to any other.

I believe religion to be a matter not of demonstration, but of
faith. God requires us to give credit to the truths which He
reveals, not because we can prove them, but because He declares
them. When the mind is reasonably convinced that the Bible is
the word of God, the only remaining duty is to receive its
doctrines with full confidence of their truth, and practi