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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second, being the five last, chapters of the book of Job being the substance of fifty-two lectures or meditations / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. and S. Simmons, 1666
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AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-eighth, T… › Chapter 38 › Verse 16-18
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Secondly, From the scope of the words, Note; The most knowing men know but little of that which they know.
Secon•ly, From the scope of the words, Note; The most knowing men know but little of that which they know.
As we know nothing at all of some things, so there is nothing of which we know the all, or of which we have a perfect knowledge, a knowledge, to which nothing can be added. They who know most of any thing, know almost nothing of it; How far then are they from knowing it all! David having spoken of the knowledge of God (Psal. 139.2, 3, 4, 5.) concludes (vers. 6.) Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it. Man is so far from an ability to attain such a knowledge as God hath, the knowledge of the most secret things of man, the knowledge of his thoughts afar off; that he is not able to attain the perfect knowledge of the plainest things. We must stay for perfect knowledge, till we come to another state, when all clouds of ignorance shall be scattered, when we shall see no more through a glass darkly, but face to face; when we shall know all that is to be known of God, and of the Works of God; when we shall be enabled to declare all our knowledge about them, and to give proof that we know them all.
Truly to know God the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom he hath sent, is eternal life, while we live here in this world, but to know the true God, and Jesus Christ, whom he hath sent, fully, yea to know any thing fully, is reserved for us in that eternal life which we wait for in the world to come.
Truly to know God the onely true God, and Jesus Christ, whom he hath sent, is eternal life, while we live here in this world, but to know the true God, and Jesus Christ, whom he hath sent, fully, yea to know any thing fully, is reserved for us in that eternal life which we wait for in the world to come.