John Trapp on Ecclesiastes 3:15

Verſ. 15. That which hath been, is now, &c.] viz. With God, to whom all things are preſent, Rom. 4.17. 2 Pet. 3.8. Jer. 1.5, 6, 7. Hence God is ſaid to know future things, Exod. 3.9. John 18.4. not to foreknow them. For indeed neither foreknowledge nor remembrance are properly in God, ſith his whole Eſſence is wholly an eye or a mind; it is the example or pattern of all things, ſo that hee needs but to look upon himſelf, and then hee ſeeth all things, as in a glaſs. The eye of man beholds many things at once, as Ants in a mole-hill: but if it will ſee other things at the ſame time, it muſt remove the ſight. The mind of man can take in a larger circuit, even a City, a Country, a World: but this it doth onely in the lump or whole maſſe of it; for elſe it muſt remove from form to form, and from thought to thought. But God takes all at once moſt ſtedfaſtly, and perfectly. All things without him are but as a point or ball, which with as much eaſe hee diſcerneth, as wee turn our eyes.

And God requireth that which is paſt] Or enquireth, asketh, that which is by-gone; hee beſpeaks it as preſent, calling thoſe things that are not as if they were. Non aliter ſcivit Deus creatae quam creanda, ſaith Auſtin. God knew things to be created, as if they had been before created.