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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 7: God incomparable in his Attributes, in his Holiness and Wisdom.
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Some men are wise, Light and Understanding, and excellent Wisdom was found in Daniel, Dan. 5.14. David was very wise, wiser then his Teachers, then his ⟨p. 60⟩Enemies, then the Ancient, Psal. 119.97, 98, 99. Solomon was a wise man, he exceeded in Wisdom all that were before him, and all that came after him: And God gave Solomon Wisdom and Understanding, exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the Sand on the Sea shore: And Solomons Wisdom excelled the Wisdom of all the Children of the East-Country, and all the Wisdom of Egypt. For he was wiser then all men, than Ethan and Heman, &c. 1 Kings 4.29, 30, 31. But was Solomon comparable to God in Wisdom? Truly, he that was wiser then all men, was a stark Fool to God; The Wisdom of man is foolishness with God, 1 Cor. 3.19. The subtlety of the Heathen (and, I may say, the greatest understanding of the Christian) is folly with God: The foolishness of God is wiser than Man, 1 Cor. 1.25. If it were possible that there should be any thing in God which might look like folly, or if it were lawful for us to conceive any action of Gods, which, compared with his deeper Contrivances, might have a show of foolishness, yet even this were wiser than the greatest wisdom of man: Angels are wiser than ⟨p. 61⟩Men. When the Woman would speak David to be very wise, above the rate of Mortals, she saith, My Lord is wise as an Angel of God, 2 Sam. 14.20. The excellency of their Natures speaks the excellency of their Wisdom, for it's the Understanding that is the chief distinguishing faculty. But are Angels like God in Wisdom? No, they are Fools to him: Behold, he putteth no trust in his Servants, he chargeth his Angels with folly, Job 4.18. Though they never thwarted the Divine pleasure, nor in any action manifested the least imprudence; yet before him they are indicted of folly, and to him will be proved guilty of it. Though they are not chargeable with actual, yet they are with potential folly; though God doth not indict them of absolute, yet he doth of comparative folly.