A Body of Practical Divinity

THE next Attribute is God's Truth; Deut. 32.4.—A God of Truth, and without Iniquity, just and right is he. Psal. 57.10. For thy Mercy is great unto the Heavens, and thy Truth unto the Clouds. A God of Truth; Psal. 86.15. —Plenteous in Truth. God is [Greek or Hebrew], the Truth. He is true, 1. in a Physical sense; True in his Being: he hath a real Subsistence, and gives a Being to others. 2. He is true in a Moral sense; he is true, sine error, without Errors, & sine fallacia, without Deceit. God is prima veritas, the Pattern and Prototype of Truth. There is nothing true but what is in God, or comes from God. I shall now speak of God's Truth as it is taken for his Veracity, in making good of his Promises: 1 Kings 8.56. There hath not failed one word of all his good promise: The Promise is God's Bond, God's Truth is the Seal set to his Bond. This is the thing to be explicated and discussed, God's Truth in fulfilling his Promises.

THE next Attribute is God's Truth; Deut. 32.4.—A God of Truth, and without Iniquity, just and right is he. Psal. 57.10. For thy Mercy is great unto the Heavens, and thy Truth unto the Clouds. A God of Truth; Psal. 86.15. —Plenteous in Truth. God is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the Truth. He is true, 1. in a Physical sence; True in his Being: he hath a real Subsistance, and gives a Being to others. 2. He is true in a Moral sence; he is true, sine errore, without Errours, & sine fallacia, without Deceit. God is prima veritas, the Pattern and Prototype of Truth. There is nothing true but what is in God, or comes from God. I shall now speak of God's Truth as it is taken for his Veracity, in making good of his Promises: 1 Kings 8.56. There hath not failed one word of all his good promise: The Promise is God's Bond, God's Truth is the Seal set to his Bond. This is the thing to be explicated and discussed, God's Truth in fulfilling his Promises.