Attributes of God - Charnock - XXIV - Chapter 8 (God's knowledge) continued

Required reading
Attributes of God by Charnock (Available from Amazon or free on the internet, here for example) - Continue Chapter 8 (A discourse upon God's knowledge) by reading up to the paragraph beginning 'V. I now proceed to the use.'

My summary
Charnock's third main point about God's knowledge seeks to show how God knows all things.  Charnocks teaches us that God knows all things:
(i) by his own essence;
(ii) by one act of intuition;
(iii) independently;
(iv) distinctly;
(v) infallibly;
(vi) immutably;
(vii) perpetually.

The fourth main point gives reasons to prove God's omniscience.  God knows all things because:
(i) he must know more than any creature;
(ii) all knowledge in any creature is from God;
(iii) the accusations of conscience evidence God's knowledge of all actions of all his creatures;
(iv) God is the first cause of everything;
(v) without this knowledge God could not be governor of the world.

What grabbed me
Very humbling to try and understand the knowledge of God in comparison to us mere humans: 'He does not upon consideration of present things turn his mind from past; nor when he beholds future things, turn his mind from present; but he sees them, not one after another, but all at once and all together; the whole circle of his own counsels, and all the various lines drawn forth from the centre of his will, to the circumference of his creatures. Just as if a man were able in one moment to read a whole library; or, as if you should imagine a transparent crystal globe, hung up in the midst of a room, and so framed as to take in the images of all things in the room, the fretwork in the ceiling, the inlaid parts of the floor, and the particular parts of the tapestry about it, the eye of a man would behold all the beauty of the room at once in it.'

I can't read a book at once, let alone a library! 

It certainly makes you think how dare you ever think that God doesn't know what he is doing in your life as though you know better than him.

Next week's reading
Conclude Chapter 8 (A discourse upon God's knowledge).

Now it's your turn
Please post your own notes and thoughts in the comments section below.