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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.
WE will enquire, Secondly; Whence is it, that we must not have the Fore-knowledge of the Times that are to pass over us?
Now, First; THERE is for it, the First Reason of all things; the grand Reason of all Reasons. The Sovereign will of GOD; That is Reason enough. The Sovereignty of the Great GOD will be maintained in it. It was a just Acknowledgement; Psal. XXXI. 15. O Lord, my Times are in thy Hand. It was a just Admonition; Act. I. 7. It is not for you to know the Times, which the Father has put in His own power. All that shall befall us in our Times, is Decreed by the GOD that made us. Now, the Decree is by our Sovereign kept a Secret: For such is His will and pleasure, that it should be so. There is a Glorious One, who is in our Translation of the Bible, called, The Ancient of Days. The Original is, The Appointer of Times. 'Tis fit, that our Times remain unknown to any but Him that has the Appointing of the Times.
Now, First; THERE is for it, the First Reason of all things; the grand Reason of all Reasons. The Sovereign will of GOD; That is Reason enough. The Sovereignty of the Great GOD will be maintained in it. It was a just Acknowledgment; Psal. XXXI. 15. O Lord, my Times are in thy Hand. It was a just Admonition; Act. I. 7. It is not for you to know the Times, which the Father has put in His own power. All that shall befall us in our Times, is Decreed by the GOD that made us. Now, the Decree is by our Sovereign kept a Secret: For such is His will and pleasure, that it should be so. There is a Glorious One, who is in our Translation of the Bible, called, The Ancient of Days. The Original is, The Appointer of Times. 'Tis fit, that our Times remain unknown to any but Him that has the Appointing of the Times.