A89503:1269
A Practical Commentary on the Epistle of Jude
A practical commentary, or An exposition with notes on the Epistle of Jude. Delivered (for the most part) in sundry weekly lectures at Stoke-Newington in Middlesex. By Thomas Manton, B.D. and minister of Covent-Garden.
London: printed by J.M. for Luke Fawn, 1658
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The next Point is, That God is only wise, see the same1 expression, 1 Tim. 7. 17. and Rom. 16. 27. why you will ⟨p. 560⟩say this is a communicable Attribute, God hath endowed man with a spirit of wisdom, and humane prudence is an emblem and resemblance of divine providence, how then is God only wise? I Answer, wisdom in God is in such an infiniteness and excess that wisdom in man is but folly in comparison of it, there is none as he, there is none wise but from him; in short, God in three respects is only wise.
The nex Point is, That God is only wise, see the same1 expression, 1 Tim. 7. 17. and Rom. 16. 27. why you will ⟨p. 560⟩say this is a communicable Attribute, God hath endowed man with a spirit of wisdom, and humane prudence is an emblem and resemblance of divine providence, how then is God only wise? I Answer, wisdom in God is in such an infiniteness and excess that wisdom in man is but folly in comparison of it, there is none as he, there is none wise but from him; in short, God in three respects is only wise.
- 1Observat. 2.
1. Originally, and independently wise, not by communication from another, but of himself; our wisdom is but array communicated from the father of lights, James 1. 17. a drop from the Ocean, a beam from the Sun, the whole knowledge of the Angels is but a spark of this light.