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

is not wisdom one of those communicable Attributes of God? so we distinguish the divine Attributes, some are communicable, ⟨p. 178⟩others are incommunicable. The infiniteness, the omniscience, the unchangeableness, the simplicity of God are incommunicable, but the holiness, the justice, the mercy and wisdom of God, are communicable; that is, God doth communicate unto man his holiness, his justice and wisdom. Why then is it said, That God is only wise, seeing God hath endowed many with a spirit of wisdom, or hath made many wise men in the world?

is not wisdome one of those communicable Attributes of God? so we distinguish the divine Attributes, some are communicable, ⟨p. 178⟩o•hers are incommunicable. The infiniteness, the omniscience, the unchangableness, the simplicity of God are incommunicable, but the holiness, the justice, the mercy and wisdome of God, are communicable; that is, God doth communicate unto man his holiness, his justice and wisdome. Why then is it said, That God is only wise, seeing God hath endowed many with a spirit of wisdome, or hath made many wise men in the world?

I answer, First, God is said to be only wise, because there is none so wise as he; his wisdom is so much beyond the wisdom of all men, that no man may be called wise but God. Thus also God is called the only Potentate, (1 Tim. 6.15.) because though there are many Potentates in the world, yet Gods potency is beyond them all. His life also is such, that, at the 16th verse of the same Chapter it is said, He only hath immortality, yet both the Angels and the souls of men are immortal; but God hath immortality in a way of such eminency, that the very Angels and souls of men are mortal in comparison of him. David said of his life, (Psal. 39.5