Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Providence
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ISBN13: 9780217684910
Paperback|9780217684910
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THAT THE DIVINE PROVIDENCE OF THE LORD, IN ALL THAT IT DOES, HAS RESPECT TO WHAT IS INFINITE AND ETERNAL. 46. It is well known in the Christian world, that God is infinite and eternal; for in the doctrine of the trinity, which has its name from Athanasius, it is said that God the Father is infinite, eternal, and omnipotent; in like manner, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost; and that nevertheless there are not three Infinites, Eternals, and Omnipotents, but one. From this it follows, that as God is infinite and eternal, nothing but infinite and eternal can be predicated of God. But what infinite and eternal is, cannot be comprehended by finite beings, and yet it can: it cannot be comprehended, because finite is not capable of infinite; and yet it can be comprehended, because there are abstract ideas given, by which it can be seen that things exist, though not what is their quality. Such ideas are given of infinite, as, that God, because he is infinite, or the Divine, because it is infinite, is JSsse itself; that it is essence and substance itself; that it is love itself and wisdom itself, or that it is good itself and truth itself; therefore that it is itself, yea, that it is man himself: then also if it be said that infinite is all, ?that Infinite Wisdom is Omniscience, and Infinite Power is Omnipotence. Still, however, these things fall but obscurely within the thought, and from being incomprehensible perhaps come to be demed; unless the things which thought derives from nature be abstracted from the idea, especially what it derives from those two things proper to nature, space and time; for these cannot but terminate ideas, and cause abstract ideas to be as nothing. But if these can be abstracted by a man as they are by an angel, then infinite can be comprehended by means o...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217684910 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217684912 |
| Weight | 0.51 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.35 In |
| List Price | $24.30 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 150 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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