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Ignorantia scientifica. A brief essay on mans not knowing his time: the just inferences…
Ignorantia scientifica. A brief essay on mans not knowing his time: the just inferences from it, and the great advantages of it. : Upon a special and mournful occasion. : [Seven lines of quotations]
printed by B. Green for Samuel Gerrish, 1727
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Yea, Secondly; THE Case of every Calamity is thus to be considered. Man knows not his Time, when that Calamity will befall him, wherein GOD will perform the Thing that is appointed for him. One that has an Husband, or a Father, in the Morning, does not know, but before Night, the state of a Widow, or an Orphan may be Theirs: The Sun may set at Noon with us, and leave us in a Sudden Darkness. A Job has his House full of Children in the Morning; but he does not know that before Night, he shall have neither House nor Children left unto him. In this evil World, every Man knows, that his Dependence may be like that of the Apostles, Afflictions wait for me: But ⟨p. 10⟩then he must add like the Apostle. Act. XX. 22. Not knowing the Things that shall befall me. And much more, Not knowing the Time when they shall befall me.
Yea, Secondly; THE Case of every Calamity is thus to be considered. Man knows not his Time, when that Calamity will befal him, wherein GOD will perform the Thing that is appointed for him. One that has an Husband, or a Father, in the Morning, does not know, but before Night, the state of a Widow, or an Orphan may be Theirs: The Sun may set at Noon with us, and leave us in a Sudden Darkness. A Job has his House full of Children in the Morning; but he does not know that before Night, he shall have neither House nor Children left unto him. In this evil World, every Man knows, that his Dependence may be like that of the Apostles, Afflictions wait for me: But ⟨p. 10⟩then he must add like the Apostle. Act. XX. 22. Not knowing the Things that shall befal me. And much more, Not knowing the Time when they shall befal me.
IT was counted a Flight of Wisdom; All that I know, is that I know nothing! It will be wisely done of us to make the knowledge of our Ignorance in this point, as efficacious as may be upon us; This I know, that man knoweth not his Time.