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A treatise of the incomparableness of God in his being, attributes, works and word…
A treatise of the incomparableness of God in his being, attributes, works and word opened and applied / by Geo. Swinnocke ...A treatise of the incomparableness of God in his being, attributes, works and word opened and applyed / by Geo. Swinnocke ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1672
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Treatise › Chapter 8: God incomparable in his Attributes, in his Knowledge and Faithfulness.
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He knoweth those things that are most hidden, most secret, the Hearts, the Thoughts, the most close retired motions ⟨p. 80⟩of the Spirit of Man; 1 Cor. 2.11. What man knoweth the things of a man, but the spirit of a man that is in him? Yea, what Angel knoweth the things of a man? but God doth. Hell and Destruction are before the Lord; how much more the hearts of the Children of Men, Prov. 15.11. Hell seems to be far from his sight, and very remote from Heaven his Seat: The hearts of the Children of men seem to be unsearchable, so deep that none can fathom them; but he hath a Line that will sound these depths: He knoweth the spirit of man, better then man knoweth himself: The heart is deceitful, and desperately wicked, who knoweth it? (No Man, no Angel knoweth it,) I the Lord search the Heart, Jer. 17.9, 10. And none knoweth it but he, therefore he is incomparable herein; For thou, thou only knowest the Hearts of the Children of Men, 1 Kings 8.39. It's his sole Prerogative: Men and Angels may see the Skins and Colours, and Lineaments and Proportions, and Faces and Garments, or out-sides of things; but God seeth the in-sides, he prieth into the very bowels of things, 1 Sam. 16.7. All things are naked and ⟨p. 81⟩dissected and anatomized before him, Heb. 4.13. 1 Chron. 28.9. Psal. 7.10. Jer. 11.20.
He knoweth those things that are most hidden, most secret, the Hearts, the Thoughts, the most close retired motions