CONCERNING THE TRINITY. embers is in the midst,eitherbecause thisworld of ours is hastening to the fieryday of judgment ; or because allthe works of God arefiery,and are not darksome,but flourish;1 or, moreover, lest,because those things had arisenfrom earthly beginnings,they should naturallybe inactive,from the rigidityof theirorigin,the hot nature of an interior spiritwas added to all things; and that thisnature con cretedwith the coldbodies might minister3 for the purpose of lifeequalmeasures for all. This,therefore,accordingto David, is God's chariot. " For the chariotof God," says he, "is multipliedten thousand times;"s thatis,itisinnu merable, infinite,immense. For, under the yoke of the naturallaw given to allthings,some thingsarerestrained,as if withheld by reins; others,as if stimulated,are urged on with relaxedreins. For the world,which is thatchariotof God with allthings,both the angelsthemselvesand the stars guide ; and theirmovements, althoughvarious,yet bound by certainlaws,we watch them guidingby the bounds of a time prescribedto themselves; so that rightlywe alsoare now disposed to exclaimwith the apostle,as he admires both the Architect and His works : " Oh the depth of the richesof the wisdom and knowledge of God ! how inscrutableare His judgments, and His ways pastfindingout !" 4— and the rest. CHAPTER IX. Argument. — Further,thatthe same ruleof truthteachesus tobelieve,aftertheFather,alsoin the Son of God, Jesus Christour Lord God, beingthesame thatwas promisedin the Old Testament,and manifestedin theNew. The same rule of truth teaches us to believe,afterthe Father, alsoon the Son of God, Christ Jesus,the Lord our God, but the Son of God — of that God who is both one 1 " Vigent,"orotherwise" lucent." * " Ministraret" seemstobepreferableto" monstraret." « Ps.lxviii.18. 1 Rom. xi.33.