37. That a trinity of Gods is contrary to enlightened reason may appear from these considerations. What man of sound reason can bear to hear that three Gods created the world, or can bear to hear that creation and preservation, redemption and salvation, reformation and regeneration are the work of three Gods, not of One? On the other hand, what man of sound reason is unwilling to hear that the same God Who created us also redeemed us and regenerates and saves us? As the latter idea and not the former accords with reason, there is, therefore, no nation upon the whole earth, possessed of religion and sound reason, which does not acknowledge one God. As is well known, the Mohammedans, also certain nations in Asia and Africa, abhor Christianity, because they believe there is in it the worship of three Gods; and the only answer of the Christians to the charge is that for the three there is one essence, thus one God. I can affirm, from the faculty of reason which has been given me, that I can clearly see that neither the world, nor the angelic heaven, nor the church, nor anything therein, could have come into existence or could subsist but from one God.