The divine life in three treatises

4. And that's the next effect that Gods Omniscience should have upon our minds. Take all the sayings of men as folly that are against the Lord. Let them be high or low, learned or unlearned if they contradict the God of Infinite wisdom, take it but as the words of a distracted man. Did you ever meet with any man of them, that durst say he was wiser than God himself? Herod that was eaten to death with vermin, was applauded by the flattering crowd, but with this acclamation, It is the voice of a God, and not of a man, Act. 12. 22. And will you say of any man that he is wiser than God? If you dare not say so, how dare you hear them and believe them against the Word of God? How dare you be drawn from a holy life, or from a self-denying duty, or from the truth of God, by the words of a man, yea perhaps of a very sot, that speaks against the Word of God! To the Law, and to the Testimony: if they speak not according to these, it is because there is no Light in them, Isa. 8. 20.]

4. And thats the next effect that Gods Omniscience should have upon our minds. Take all the sayings of men as folly that are against the Lord. Let them be high or low, learned or unlearned if they contradict the God of Infinite wisdome, take it but as the words of a distracted man. Did you ever meet with any man of them, that durst say he was wiser than God himself? Herod that was eaten to death with vermine, was applauded by the flattering crowd, but with this acclamation, It is the voice of a God, and not of a man, Act. 12. 22. And will you say of any man that he is wiser than God? If you dare not say so, how dare you hear them and believe them against the Word of God? How dare you be drawn from a holy life, or from a selfdenying duty, or from the truth of God, by the words of a man, yea perhaps of a very sot, that speaks against the Word of God! To the Law, and to the Testimony: if they speak not according to these, it is because there is no Light in them, Isa. 8. 20.]