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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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God knoweth all things at once (uno actu & uno ictu, as they say): Creatures know one thing by another, and one thing after another; Their Understandings are unable to take in many Objects at once, much less able to take in all Objects at once; but God seeth all things at one View: The Lord looketh down from Heaven, he beholdeth all the Children of Men's From the place of his Habitation he beholdeth all the Inhabitants of the Earth, Psal. 33.13, 14. The Eye of Man may see many things at once, as an Hive of Bees, but if it will see other things, it must remove the sight; though the Mind of Man can take in more then the Eye, as a whole Country or World at once, yet 'tis only the lump of gross; if it would take the distinct knowledge of them, it must remove from thought to thought; but God takes all distinctly particularly at once.
God knoweth all things at once (uno actu & uno ictu, as they say): Creatures know one thing by another, and one thing after another; Their Understandings are unable to take in many Objects at once, much less able to take in all Objects at once; but God seeth all things at one View: The Lord looketh down from Heaven, he beholdeth all the Children of Men's From the place of his Habitation he beholdeth all the Inhabitants of the Earth, Psal. 33.13, 14. The Eye of Man may see many things at once, as an Hive of Bees, but if it will see other things, it must remove the sight; though the Mind of Man can take in more then the Eye, as a whole Country or World at once, yet 'tis onely the lumpe of gross; if it would take the distinct knowledge of them, it must remove from thought to thought; but God takes all distinctly particularly at once.
God knoweth all things from everlasting, before ever the World had a Being: Men and Angels may know what is, when it is, but cannot know it as God doth, before it was; Acts 15.18. Known to God are all his Works, from the beginning of the World. Before he erected the curious frame of the World, he knew all the Rooms and Furniture in it, all the motions and actions of all the Inhabitants of it. He doth by one pure, simple, undivided, eternal act of his Understanding know all things perfectly, immediately, distinctly, every moment.