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An exposition of the assemblies catechism with practical inferences from each question as it…
An exposition of the assemblies catechism with practical inferences from each question as it was carried on in the Lords Days exercises in Dartmouth, in the first year of liberty, 1688 / by John Flavell.
London: printed for Tho. Cockerill, 1692
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.
A. The Essential wisdom of God, is his most exact and perfect knowledge of Himself, and all his Creatures, and his ordering, and disposing them in the most convenient manner, to the Glory of his own Name. Ephes. 1.11. According to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will.
A. The Essential wisdom of God, is his most exact and perfect knowledge of Himself, and all his Creatures, and his ordering, and disposing them in the most convenient manner, to the Glory of his own Name. Ephes. 1.11. According to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the councel of his own will.
Q 3. What is the first property of God's wisdom?
Q 3. VVhat is the first property of God's wisdom?
A. The first property is, he is only wise. Rom. 16.27. To God only wise be glory. And whatsoever wisdom is in Angels, or Men, is all derived, and borrowed from God; but his from none. Isa. 40.14. With whom took he counsel? and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of understanding?
A. The first property is, he is only wise. Rom. 16.27. To God only wise be glory. And whatsoever wisdom is in Angels, or Men, is all derived, and borrowed from God; but his from none.