Chap,37. eeinExFoftion upon the Book of J o B. Vert. e6 5 5 3 That is psrfeTT in knowledge. This is a defcription of Cod, and filch a defcription as will ft nonebut God;whohathand who only hath,not onlyknowledge,but the perte&ionofir.We need notname i od,whenwe fpeak of him that is perfeel in knowledge, it can be meant of none but him. Elihu, at the 4th verfe of the former Chapter, laid CO lob, He that is pp'fec7 ín knoroledge (meaning himfelf, as that text was ex- pounded) is with thee. ±o what fenfe Elihre might fay of hit ,elf, that hews perfeEí in knowledge, was there fl3ewed and here it mull be flaewed and confeffed, that neither Elihu was, nor any, themolt knowing, are perte& in knowledge like God, or as God is. The Apottfe raith of the bell knowers in this world (t Cor. 13. 9.) we know inpart, and wepropherie in part ; we beholddark- ly,as ina glafs. They that have the clearef°c eye-fight, the pureft mte1Leluals, know but in part, and fee but darkly, which is far from perfedlly; therefore, I fay, this defcription of plea in knowledge, bath a peculiar meaning here, preper only to God, as will appear more particularly in opening this Obfervation from it. God is not only full ofknowledge, bat perfeEf inknowledge ; or, 7he krewledgeofGod is perfeitl y perfetí. That's perfe ly perk& to which nothing can be added, and, fromwhich nothing can be taken, Such is the knowledgeof God ; it is impotlible to add any thing to ir, and it is as impolliible todi- minifb it : God cannotforget or unlearn any thing already known, nor can he know any more things, no nor any thing mo-e, than he already knoweth ; therefore he is perte& in knowledge. More ditlin&ly, the knowledge of God is perte& ; For, Firti , He knoweth all things ; what-ever is knowable he knoweth. He knowes Fill, 141 things pall. Secondly, He knowes all things prefent. Thirdly, 1;te knowsall things to come (Ifa. 46. t o.) He de= clareth the endfroth thebeginning. Now he that knowes all things paí , prefenr, or to come, is per feet in knowledge. Secondly, He is perfect in knowledge, for he knowes all things: at once, in one prorpe& or byone afpecc ; he doth rot know one thing after another,nor one thine byanother,he knows all at once. B b bb Thirdly;
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