A treatise of the incomparableness of God in his being, attributes, works and word…

When Isaiah had seen the Lord of Hosts, though he were an Holy man, he crieth out, I am undone, I am a man of unclean lips, for mine eyes have seen the Lord of Hosts, ⟨p. 249⟩Isa. 6.3, 4. He never saw so much of his own uncleanness, as when he saw him in whose presence the Heavens are unclean. Other knowledge, like wind in a bladder, puffeth up, 1 Cor. 8.2. but the knowledge of God, as fire nigh the bladder, shrinks and shrivels it up to nothing.

When Isaiah had seen the Lord of Hosts, though he were an Holy man, he cryeth out, I am undone, I am a man of unclean lips, for mine eyes have seen the Lord of Hosts, ⟨p. 249⟩Isa. 6.3, 4. He never saw so much of his own uncleanness, as when he saw him in whose presence the Heavens are unclean. Other knowledge, like wind in a bladder, puffeth up, 1 Cor. 8.2. but the knowledge of God, as fire nigh the bladder, shrinks and shrivels it up to nothing.

2. The knowledge of God is a satisfying knowledge. A man may know much of Creatures; and the more he knoweth, the more unquiet and restless he is; his knowledge, as wind to the stomach, may fill, and pain, and trouble him, but cannot satisfy him: for, Creatures are not that savoury meat which the heaven-born spiritual immortal Soul of man would have, and must have, if ever it be contented. The greatest Students, who have wearied and tired out their brains, and bodies, in the search of Natures secrets, have found by experience, that they spent their strength for what is not bread, and their labour for what will not satisfy; and they have known the truth of the Wise mans saying, He that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow,