An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches

Ans. 1. His Knowledge essential it self is not. 2. The Objects are. 3. And therefore the Denominations of his Knowledge ab extrae oft are: As we may say, That God knew from Eternity that the World would be created, and Christ incarnate, as future. But now he knoweth that they were so, ut praeterita. God doth not now know, that Christ will be born, that Christ just now is crucified, that Paul is preaching on Earth: but once he knew all these. Yet here all the Change is in the object, and none in God's Knowledge, as there is on mans.

§. 7. If the question be, How God knoweth future contingents?

Ans. 1. God's Essence is Knowledge, and is Infinite, and therefore extendeth to all that is intelligible: And if they be not objects intelligible, it belongeth not to a perfect Intellect to know them. But if they are, it is rashness to ask any other reason of God's knowing them, besides his Perfection and their Intelligibility: But all Contingents ⟨p. 34⟩that are future, are Certainties to God as well as Contingencies, in several respects, and accordingly known: But the shallow Brain of Worms doth little know what Futurity signifieth in Eternity to God. 2. But we know what future Contingents are to us. 3. And thence we know that God's Intellect may be denominated by imperfect Man, as in its perfection comprehending our Futurities and Contingencies, and human Measures, tho' not as Measures to God.