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

Hence Note, First, God hath a right and clear apprehension of all persons and actions;

His understanding is infinite. The Lord is (as Hannah spake in her Thanksgiving-Song, 1 Sam. 2.3.) a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed; That is, he knoweth them exactly, to a grain, as we do the weight of those things which we have laid in an even Balance. It is required of Judges (in that advice which Jethro gave to Moses, Exod. 18.21.) That they should be able men, that is, (not so much men of able purses, as) of able parts, men of able judgement, and of more than common understanding, even such as were able to look through every mans Cause that came before them. Such is the ability of the Lords understanding to the full, he is Omniscient, He is light, and in him is no darkness at all. And as in him there is no darkness, so nothing is dark to him; the most intricate and knotty Case, the most ravelled and vexed Cause that ever was, is plain and evident before his eyes, with whom we have to do, and who hath to do with us. Judgement is before him; neither is there any Judgement before any other in comparison of him; God hath so much light, that Men and Angels are to him but darkness; God seeth so much, that all others may be said not to see, or to be stark blind; even those Judges may be called blind, who are not blinded, we may say they have no eyes, whose eyes are not put out with gifts, compared with God. How blind then are those Judges, who are blinded? and whose eyes are put out, either by prejudice or passion, by hopes or fears! it cannot be, but Judgement must be before God, because as he clearly sees, and fully understands whatsoever comes before him, so nothing can divert or bias him from doing every man right, according to his sight and understanding. Judgement is before him.

His understanding is infinite. The Lord is (as Hannah spake in her Thanksgiving-Song, 1 Sam. 2.3.) a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed; That is, he knoweth them exactly, to a grain, as we do the weight of those things which we have laid in an even Balance. It is required of Judges (in that advice which Jethro gave to Moses,