Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
But God being a pure Spirit, without any mixture of body or matter, is never weary in his thoughts, purposes, and designs, neither doth he discourse after the manner of men, drawing a conclusion from the Premises, neither doth he think of one thing, and then of another, for there is not in him (I mean in his wisdom and intelligence, no more then in the Eternity of his duration) neither first nor second prius & posterius, but all these thoughts, designs, counsels, and resolutions, are in him but one single and pure act, by which he sees, knows, understands, wills, and ordereth all things; his most pure, and perfect simplicity (which agreeth with so excellent and infinite a Nature) requireth that, and it implies a contradiction, that there should be in his Essence any variableness, or shadow of turning[.] ...
For more, see Louis Cappel on God’s knowledge as a pure act.
For more, see Louis Cappel on God’s knowledge as a pure act.