2. But innumerable are the things which they know not. _Touching the Almighty himself, they cannot search him out to perfection. Lo, these are but a part of his ways; but the thunder of his power, who can understand?_ They cannot understand, I will not say, how _there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one_; or how the eternal Son of God _took upon himself the form of a servant_: but not any one attribute, not any one circumstance of the divine nature. Neither is it for them _to know the times and seasons_, when God will work his great works upon the earth; no, not even those which he hath in part revealed, by his servants and prophets, since the world began. Much less do they know, when God having _accomplished the number of his elect will hasten his kingdom_: when _the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat_. 3. They know not the reasons even of many of his present dispensations with the sons of men: but are constrained to rest here, tho’ _clouds and darkness are round about him, righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his seat_. Yea, often with regard to his dealings with themselves doth their Lord say unto them, _What I do, thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter_. And how little do they know, of what is ever before them, of even the visible works of his hands? How _he spreadeth the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing_? How he unites all the parts of this vast machine by a secret chain which cannot be broken? So great is the ignorance, so very little the knowledge of even the best of men.