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 1        1|         towards the similitude of God’s goodness or love (which
 2        1|        LIKE UNTO THE HIGHEST; not God, but the highest. To be
 3        1|        the highest. To be like to God in goodness, was no part
 4        1|       THAT HE SHOULD BE LIKE UNTO GOD. But how? Not simply, but
 5        1|    approaching and intruding into God’s secrets and mysteries
 6        1|      removing and estranging from God’s presence. But as to the
 7        1|         But as to the goodness of God, there is no danger in contending
 8        1|          of the nature or will of God, he shall dangerously abuse
 9        1| contemplation of the creatures of God hath for end (as to the
10        1|           but as to the nature of God, no knowledge, but wonder;
11        1|  knowledge but by similitude; and God is only self-like, having
12        1|        and ravelling too far into God’s secrets; an opinion that
13        1|     depend upon the providence of God, as supposing the effects
14        1|         friends, WILL YOU LIE FOR GOD AS MAN WILL FOR MAN TO GRATIFY
15        1|          evil, whereby to dispute God’s commandments and not to
16        1|       petitioned and granted from God, is said to have written
17        1|        directly that the glory of God IS TO CONCEAL A THING, BUT
18        1|         OF MAN IS AS THE LAMB, OF GOD, WHEREWITH HE SEARCHETH
19        1|       nature and an instinct from God, the same author defineth
20        1|     defineth of it fully, saying, GOD HATH MADE EVERY THING IN
21        1|           FIND OUT THE WORK WHICH GOD WORKETH FROM THE BEGINNING
22        1|      declaring not obscurely that God hath framed the mind of
23        1|          or summary law of nature God should still reserve within
24        1|        appeareth to be a plant of God’s own planting, so it may
25        1|         plant, by a providence of God, nay not only by a general
26        1|        exaltation of the glory of God; for as the Psalms and other
27        1|      great and wonderful works of God, so if we should rest only
28        1|          injury to the majesty of God, as if we should judge of
29        1|       SCRIPTURES NOR THE POWER OF GOD; laying before us two books
30        1|  Scriptures revealing the will of God, and then the creatures
31        1|           check the liberality of God’s gifts, who, as was said,
32        1|           So as whatsoever is not God but parcel of the world,
33        1|           so large a charter from God must be subject to that
34        1|     subject to that use for which God hath granted it; which is
35        1|           to leave the oracles of God’s word and to vanish in
36        1|          ever left the oracles of God’s works, and adored the
37        1|      kingdom of knowledge than in God’s kingdom of heaven, that
38        8|   controlled him in his faculty,) GOD FORBID YOUR FORTUNE SHOULD
39       11|       carry no proportion towards God the creator, saith, THAT
40       11|           HE WILL REVERE HIM AS A GOD, THAT CAN TRULY DIVIDE AND
41       25|          the immediate working of God, is adverse to knowledge.