The wisest Men and Angels stand in need of a Master to teach them, and a Tutor to instruct them; and were it not for the only wise God, they would be as unwise as the wild Asses Colt, as foolish as Idiots, Psal. 94.10. But God is above all Teachers, all Tutors: Job 21.22. Shall any teach God knowledge. Some persons are uncapable of teaching, because of their extreme weakness; Ex quoris ligno non fit Mercurius, their parts are so very low and mean, that they cannot be taught. But God is uncapable of teaching, because of his immense Wisdom: His abilities are so high, that they are above and beyond all instruction: Isa. 40.13, 14. Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or being his Counsellor hath taught him? The wise Solomon had his Privy-Counsellors; the wisest Princes and States have their Council-Tables, and there is reason enough for it, because two Heads are better then one (as we say) and two Eyes see more then one: Two are better then one, Eccles. 4.9. And in many Counsellors there is safety. But God who ⟨p. 63⟩is all Head, all Eye, all Understanding, needs none to advise or counsel him. Two Candles indeed are better then one, because the light of each is little and small, and capable of increase; but one Sun is better then a million of Candles, because its light is (after a sort) boundless, and uncapable of the least addition, or increase by millions of Candles: Verse 14. With whom took he Counsel? (with what Angel, with what Man, with what Politician did he ever consult,) who instructed him in the Paths of Judgment? (taught him what was just, what was unjust, what to do, what to forbear; how to govern and order the Affairs of the World, in what manner and measure to cut out and carve every ones portion.) Who taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding? Where is the Creature that can say, He obliged God, by giving him directions in any case? Where is the Man, the Angel, that can speak it, that he ever taught God one Lesson, or told him one Letter? If any such be, God will pay him well for his Learning: Rom. 11.34, 35. Who hath known the mind of the ⟨p. 64⟩Lord, or who hath been his Counsellor? Who hath given to him, and it shall be recompensed to him again? We may know the mind of God for our instruction, but we can never know the mind of God for his instruction, 1 Cor. 2. ult.
The wisest Men and Angels stand in need of a Master to teach them, and a Tutor to instruct them; and were it not for the onely wise God, they would be as unwise as the wild Asses Colt, as foolish as Idiots, Psal. 94.10. But God is above all Teachers, all Tutors: Job 21.22. Shall any teach God knowledge. Some persons are uncapable of teaching, because of their extreme weakness; Ex quoris ligno non fit Mercurius, their parts are so very low and mean, that they cannot be taught. But God is uncapable of teaching, because of his immense Wisdom: His abilities are so high, that they are above and beyond all instruction: Isa. 40.13, 14. Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or being his Counsellor hath taught him? The wise Solomon had his Privy-Counsellors; the wisest Princes and States have their Council-Tables, and there is reason enough for it, because two Heads are better then one (as we say) and two Eyes see more then one: Two are better then one, Eccles. 4.9. And in many Counsellors there is safety. But God who ⟨p. 63⟩is all Head, all Eye, all Understanding, needs none to advise or counsel him. Two Candles indeed are better then one, because the light of each is little and small, and capable of increase; but one Sun is better then a million of Candles, because its light is (after a sort) boundless, and uncapable of the least addition, or increase by millions of Candles: Verse 14. With whom took he Counsell? (with what Angel, with what Man, with what Politician did he ever consult,) who instructed him in the Paths of Judgment? (taught him what was just, what was unjust, what to do, what to forbear; how to govern and order the Affairs of the World, in what manner and measure to cut out and carve every ones portion.) Who taught him knowledge, and shewed him the way of understanding? Where is the Creature that can say, He obliged God, by giving him directions in any case? Where is the Man, the Angel, that can speak it, that he ever taught God one Lesson, or told him one Letter? If any such be, God will pay him well for his Learning: Rom. 11.34, 35. Who hath known the mind of the ⟨p. 64⟩Lord, or who hath been his Counsellor? Who hath given to him, and it shall be recompenced to him again? We may know the mind of God for our instruction, but we can never know the mind of God for his instruction,
