Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…

SECT. VI. The foreknowledge.

OF the knowledge of God in this respect we read in Scriptures,¹ Christ is said to be delivered by the determinate Counsel and foreknowledge of God. And it is said of Christs members, the called according to his purpose, whom he did foreknow: and elsewhere in the same Epistle, God hath not cast away his people, which he foreknew. And Peter writes to the strangers Elect, according to the foreknowledge of God the Father. Understand, that foreknowledge is ascribed to God in respect of the creature properly; but in respect of God there is nothing past, nothing to come; all things past, and all things to come are present to him, and therefore in that sense he cannot be said to foreknow any thing. Now the Lord in respect of us is said in Scripture to foreknow things or persons two ways.²

OF the knowledge of God in this respect we read in Scriptures,¹ Christ is said to be delivered by the determinate Counsel and foreknowledg of God. And it is said of Christs members, the called according to his purpose, whom he did foreknow: and elsewhere in the same Epistle, God hath not cast away his people, which he foreknew. And Peter writes to the strangers Elect, according to the foreknowledge of God the Father. Understand, that foreknowledge is ascribed to God in respect of the creature properly; but in respect of God there is nothing past, nothing to come; all things past, and all things to come are present to him, and therefore in that sense he cannot be said to foreknow any thing. Now the Lord in respect of us is said in Scripture to foreknow things or persons two wayes.²