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[We may now take some more instances to shew the effects of the operations of Heretics.] The good Shepherd in a certain place (St.John x.

14, 15) says concerning Himself--'I know My sheep and am known of Mine, even as the Father knoweth Me and I know the Father': by which words He hints at a mysterious knowledge as subsisting between Himself and those that are His.

And yet it is worth observing that whereas He describes the knowledge which subsists between the Father and the Son in language which implies that it is strictly identical on either side, He is careful to distinguish between the knowledge which subsists between the creature and the Creator by slightly varying the expression,--thus leaving it to be inferred that it is not, neither indeed can be, on either side the same.

God knoweth us with a perfect knowledge.

Our so-called 'knowledge' of God is a thing different not only in degree, but in kind[478].