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Excerpt from Nine Sermons on the Decrees and Agency of God
But this is impossible, unless the foresight Of God is mere uncertain conjecture, like our own; and that is no fore-knowledge at all. When we speak of uncertainties, contingencies, being or not being, we always have reference to ourselves. Things are uncertain to us, but not to God. When it is said, therefore, that God foreknows a particular event, it is meant that that event is certain to him. And it would be equally certain to us, if we could foreknow, or if God should communicate his knowledge of it to us. The event is certain in itself, or it could not be the object of the divine knowledge. It has a real existence in the divine mind. But it is a matter of uncertainty to us whether it will happen or not, because we are not.
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