Meditations on the holy sacrament of the Lords last Supper Written many years sinceMeditations on the holy sacrament of the Lords last Supper Written many yeares since

God made a Covenant with our fathers, and not accounting that enough he confirmed it by an oath, ^cthat by 2. immutable things, wherein it was impossible for God to lie, they might have strong consolation who have had refuge to lay hold on the hope that is set before them. The strength we see of the consolation depends upon the stability of the covenant. And is Gods covenant made more firm by an oath than by a promise? The truth of God is as his nature without^d variableness or shadow of changing, and can it then be made more immutable? Certainly as to infiniteness in regard of extension, so unto immutability in regard of firmness, can there not be any accession of degrees, or parts: All immutability being nothing else but an exclusion of whatsoever might possibly occur to make the thing variable ⟨p. 157⟩and uncertain. So then the Oath of God doth no more add to the certainty of his word then do mens oaths and protestations to the truth of what they affirm; but because we consist of an earthly and dull temper, therefore God when he speaks unto us doth ingeminate his compellations,^a O Earth, Earth, Earth, hear the word of the Lord. So weak is our sight, so diffident our nature, as that it seems to want the evidence of what it sees: peradventure God may repent him of his promise, as he did sometime of his^b Creature. Why should not the Covenant of grace be as mutable as was that of gwords? God promised to^c establish Zion for ever, and yet Zion, the City of the great God is fallen; was not^d Shiloh beloved, and did not God forsake it? had ^eComah been as the signet of his hand, had he not yet been cast away? was not ^f