Concerning the knowledge of God, you have here, First, the extent of it: 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, All things. Secondly, The quality or kinde of it. First, It it is a clear or evident knowledge. All things are, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉,
Naked. Secondly, It is a full and thorow knowledge, All things are naked and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Open. Thirdly, It is a
perfect and infal∣lible knowledge, All things are naked and open, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 unto the Eyes of him. Lastly, You have here the God in whom this knowledge is: It is he
〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, with whom we have to do 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
The first thing in the Text, is the extent of the knowledge of God, it reacheth unto all things, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, all things: All things that are in God, and all things that are without God. All things,
Divine and not Divine. All things, Angelicall or
Humane: Heavenly or earthly: All things good or
evil, great or small: secret or open. All things that have been, or have not been: that are, or that are not; that shall be, or that may be, or that never shall, never can be: All things past, present, future, contingent, impossible, All things are naked and open unto the eyes of him, with whom we have to doe.
This field would be too large for me to travell over at this time, I shall therefore only thrust my sickle into one corner of it, and confine my discourse unto that knowledge which God hath of men and their affairs, not only because that will be most profitable, but also because that seems to be the very reason why the A∣postle mentions the Omniscience of God in this place, that we might make application of it to our selves and our own actions, therefore he saith; 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
That knowledge then, which God hath of men and of their wayes, I shall endeavour to set before you in these ensuing particulars.