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Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…
Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of Jesus as carrying on the great work of mans salvation from first to last / by Isaac Ambrose ...
London: printed for Richard Chiswel, 1680
Book 2 › Chapter 1 › Section 1: Of the eternal Generation of our Jesus.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
We must consider in God two things, 1. That in God there is an understanding. 2. That in God this understanding everlastingly acts or works.
For the first, that God hath a most excellent understanding, or that he is understanding it self in the highest degree, is very clear; for he that gives understanding to all his intelligible creatures, must needs have it, and be it most eminently in himself: if fire be the cause of heat in other things, it must needs be, that fire is the hottest of any thing;* the axiom is common, but the Scripture verifies it, with God is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding. Nay, that this understanding is his very being is very plain, Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom, I am understanding, and I am strength.
For the first, that God hath a most excellent understanding, or that he is understanding it self in the highest degree, is very clear; for he that gives understanding to all his intelligible creatures, must needs have it, and be it most eminently in himself: if fire be the cause of heat in other things, it must needs be, that fire is the hottest of any thing;* the axiome is common, but the Scripture verifies it, with God is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding. Nay, that this understanding is his very being is very plain, Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom, I am understanding, and I am strength.
- *Propter quod unum quodque tale, illud est magis tal•. Job 12 13 Prov. 8.14