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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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2. He is incomparable in the manner of his Knowledge: God knoweth all things fully and perfectly, Men and Angels know (what they do know) but ⟨p. 82⟩imperfectly, and by halves: They know but part of what is knowable, and they know this but in part. God beholds every thing throughly, as if (like a well-drawn Picture) he beheld that alone, and none but that, 2 Chron. 16.9. His Eye-lids try the Children of Men, Psal. 11.5. i. e. He hath a distinct certain critical through knowledge of them.
God knoweth all things immediately, by immediate intuition, not by species: Men know things either by the Senses, the Eyes, Ears, or Tastes; or by species taken in by the Sense, and imprinted on the fantasy, which are thence offered to the Understanding; or else by Faith, and the report of others, or by discourse and ratiocination. He knoweth one thing by another, the Conclusion by Mediums and Premises; the Causes by the Effects, and the Consequents by the Antecedents. Saints and Angels in Heaven know things in God, not in themselves: God knoweth all things in themselves, and seeth all things in himself, as in a Glass, Man in this World must have a two-fold Light to see by; A light in his ⟨p. 83⟩Eye, and a light in the Air: But the Father of Lights needs no light to see by, Darkness and Light are both alike to him, Psal. 139.12. His Eyes are as a Flame of Fire, He seeth in the Dark, Revel. 1.14.
God knoweth all things immediately, by immediate intuition, not by species: Men know things either by the Senses, the Eyes, Ears, or Tastes; or by species taken in by the Sense, and imprinted on the phantasie, which are thence offered to the Understanding; or else by Faith, and the report of others, or by discourse and ratiocination. He knoweth one thing by another, the Conclusion by Mediums and Premises; the Causes by the Effects, and the Consequents by the Antecedents. Saints and Angels in Heaven know things in God, not in themselves: God knoweth all things in themselves, and seeth all things in himself, as in a Glass, Man in this World must have a two-fold Light to see by; A light in his