An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…

This is a description of God, and such a description as will fit none but God; who hath and who only hath, not only knowledge, but the perfection of it. We need not name God, when we speak of him that is perfect in knowledge, it can be meant of none but him. Elihu, at the 4th verse of the former Chapter, said to Job, He that is perfect in knowledge (meaning himself, as that text was expounded) is with thee. In what sense Elihu might say of himself, that he was perfect in knowledge, was there showed; and here it must be showed and confessed, that neither Elihu was, nor any, the most knowing, are perfect in knowledge like God, or as God is. The Apostle saith of the best knowers in this world (1 Cor. 13.9.) We know in part, and we prophesy in part; we behold darkly, as in a glass. They that have the clearest eye-sight, the purest intellectuals, know but in part, and see but darkly, which is far from perfectly; therefore, I say, this description of perfect in knowledge, hath a peculiar meaning here, proper only to God, as will appear more particularly in opening this Observation from it.

This is a description of God, and such a description as will fit none but God; who hath and who only hath, not •nly knowledge, but the perfection of it. We need not name God, when we speak of him that is perfect in knowledge, it can be meant of none but him. Elihu, at the 4th verse of the former Chapter, said to Job, He that is perfect in knowledge (meaning himself, as that text was expounded) is with thee. In what sense Elihu might say of himself, that he was perfect in knowledge, was there shewed; and here it must be shewed and confessed, that neither Elihu was, nor any, the most knowing, are perfect in knowledge like God, or as God is. The Apostle saith of the best knowers in this world (1 Cor. 13.9.) We know in part, and we prophesie in part; we behold darkly, as in a glass. They that have the clearest eye-sight, the purest intellectuals, know but in part, and see but darkly, which is far from perfectly; therefore, I say, this description of perfect in knowledge, hath a peculiar meaning here, proper only to God, as will appear more particularly in opening this Observation from it.