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Of the Knowledge and Will in God
CHAP. V.
WEE have treated of God and his Attributes, which are of the Es∣sence of God; we come now to treat of the Knowledge and Will in God, (as much as may be known by Natural and Metaphysical Reason) which by Ana∣logy to things created (though there be nothing in God but is of his Essence, for quicquid in deo est deus est, yet) in a pe∣culiar manner we shall here handle as Faculties and Operations, and not as those which are of his Essence.
That in God there is Knowledge is so plain and evident by Natural light, that none of the Philosophers who acknow∣ledge a God hath ever denied it; Aristo∣tle in his Metaphysicks and Ethicks af∣firms it, proving it further from the Im∣materiality of God; the more Immate∣rial any thing is, the more Intellectual, as we have formerly said, now God is summè immaterialis, therefore is he summè cognoscitivus.