An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches

Ans. 1. Not as it is his Essence. 2. The Objects of it have their Causes. 3. The denomination of his Knowledge as such, from the Objects respectively, hath its cause, such as a Terminus may be called. And as in Man the Object is really the quasi materiale and constitutive cause of the Act, not as an Act, but as this Act in specie vel individuo thus terminated; so as to the mere connotation ⟨p. 33⟩and relation and denomination, though not as to •ny real reception, we may speak of God.

Ans. 1. Not as it is his Essence. 2. The Objects of it have their Causes. 3. The denomination of his Knowledg as such, from the Objects respectively, hath its cause, such as a Terminus may be called. And as in Man the Object is really the quasi materiale and constitutive cause of the Act, not as an Act, but as this Act in specie vel individuo thus terminated; so as to the meer connotation ⟨p. 33⟩and relation and denomination, though not as to •ny real reception, we may speak of God.

§. 5. So if the question be, Whether God's Knowledge •ave many Acts? and whether one be before or after •thers?

Ans. 1. God's Essential Knowledge is simply one. 2. The Objects of it are many. 3. Therefore as denominated ab extra, from respect to the Objects, we may distinguish his simple Knowledge, and mention priority and posteriority, but such only •s resulteth from the Order of Objects: And these being but Conceptions and Denominations necessitated by our weakness, without any real diversity n God, we must fear and abhor presumptuous boldness, and contentiousness hereabout.