Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachi the…Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachy the…

CHAP. XIII. Inferences drawn from the Proposition.

IF God hearkens and hears, hence I infer Gods Omniscience.¹ How could, he being in Heaven, hear what the Saints speak and think, were he not Omniscient? Through the bright Mirror of his own essence he hath a full Idea of all things. He knows the Intrigues of States, the Stratagems of his Enemies, Exod. 14.24. Future Contingencies fall within his Cognizance^*. Gods Knowledge is Primary: he is the Original, Pattern, and Prototype of all Knowledge. Gods Knowledge is Instantaneous. He knows all at once: Our Knowledge is Successive, we know one thing after another, and argue from the Effect to the cause; but all things are in Gods view uno intuitu, in one entire prospect. Gods Knowledge is infallible and not ⟨p. 133⟩Subject to mistake. Such is the Infinity of his Knowledge, that the Apostle cries out in Admiration [Greek or Hebrew], O the depth of the Riches both of the Wisdom and Knowledge of God! Rom. 11.33. The World is to God as a Bee-hive of Glass, where you see the working of the Bees, and the framing of their Combs. All things are unveiled to the Eye of Jehovah.

IF God hearkens and hears, hence I infer Gods Omnisciency.¹ How could, he being in Heaven, hear what the Saints speak and think, were he not Omniscient? Through the bright Mirror of his own essence he hath a ful Idea of all things. He knows the Intrigues of States, the Stratagems of his Enemies, Exod. 14.24