The divine life in three treatises

5. The Infinite wisdom of God, should establish our confidence concerning the fulfilling of all his Word. He will not fail for want of Knowledge: when he spoke that Prophecy, that Promise or that Threatening, he perfectly knew all things that would come to pass, to all eternity. He knew therefore what he said when he gave out his Word, and therefore will fulfil it. Heaven and earth may pass away, but one Iota or tittle of his word shall not pass away till all be accomplished, Mat. 5. 18

5. The Infinite wisdom of God, should establish our confidence concerning the fulfilling of all his Word. He will not fail for want of Knowledge: when he spoke that Prophesie, that Promise or that Threatning, he perfectly knew all things that would come to pass, to all eternity. He knew therefore what he said when he gave out his Word, and therefore will fulfill it. Heaven and earth may pass away, but one Iota or tittle of his word shall not pass away till all be accomplished, Mat. 5. 18

6. And from the Infinite wisdom of God, the Church must be encouraged in its greatest straits, and against all the cunning subtlety of their enemies. Are we ever in such straits, that God knows not how to bring us out? when we see no way for our deliverance, doth it follow that he sees none? If cunning Serpents are too subtle for us, do we think that they can overwit the Lord? what had become of us long ago, if God had not known what ever is plotted at Rome, or Spain, or Hell against us? If he knoweth not of all the consultations of the conclave, and of all the contrivances of Jesuits and Fryers; and of all ⟨p. 64⟩the jugglings of the masked Emissaries; If God had not known of Vaux and his Powder mine, it might have blown up all our hopes. But while we know that God is in their Councils, and heareth every word they say, and knoweth every secret of their hearts, and every mischief which they enterprise, let us do our duty, and rest in the wisdom of our great Protector, who will prove all his adversaries to have plaid the fools: For as sure as his Omnipotency shall be glorified by overtopping all opposing powers, so sure shall his Infinite wisdom be glorified, by conquering and befooling the wisdom that is against him.