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The true doctrine of justification asserted and vindicated, from the errors of Papists, Arminians,…The true doctrine of justification asserted and vindicated, from the errours of Papists, Arminians,…
The true doctrine of justification asserted and vindicated, from the errors of Papists, Arminians, Socinians, and more especially Antinomians in XXX lectures preached at Lawrence-Jury, London / by Anthony Burgess ...The true doctrine of justification asserted and vindicated, from the errours of Papists, Arminians, Socinians, and more especially Antinomians in XXX lectures preached at Lawrence-Iury, London / by Anthony Burgess ...
London: printed by A. Miller for Tho. Underhill, 1651
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First, That seeing is attributed to God only metaphorically, 1God hath no bodily eyes. It is well observed by a Father, that the meaner and more debased the things are to which God is compared, there is the least danger, because every common apprehension will judge it not to be truly and formally so in God. And thus it is of eyes, and when to see is attributed to God, it is the same thing with to know, so that to make a difference between these two is gross ignorance.
First, That seeing is attributed to God only metaphorically, 1God hath no bodily eies. It is well observed by a Father, that the meaner and more debased the things are to which God is compared, there is the least danger, because every common apprehension will judge it not to be truly and formally so in God. And thus it is of eyes, and when to see is attributed to God, it is the same thing with to know, so that to make a difference between these two is grosse ignorance.
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Secondly, Knowledge is attributed likewise to God, 1but in a far different sense from what it is in us, and therefore differs from our knowledge many ways: 1. His knowledge is his substance: Hence Synesius said, God to be [Greek or Hebrew], by his understanding. 2. Its not caused from objects; Gregory expressed it well, Ipse mundus nobis non notus esse posset nisi esset, deo autem nisi notus ⟨p. 90⟩esset, esse non posset. 3. It's simple and one. There is properly no memory of things past, no prescience of things to come, but all things are present to him: As if there were a body that were all eyes, that needed not to turn it self backward and forward, to see things; or as a man standing upon an high Tower doth with one cast of his eye behold Passengers at the bottom of the Tower, which go successively one after another; Thus Deus est totus lux, & totus oculus, God is altogether light, and wholly an eye. 4. Knowledge in us, is properly taken for to know a thing by its causes, but it is not so in God. This rightly understood will overthrow that distinction of knowing and seeing.