Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God

^*This unchangeableness of God was anciently represented by the figure of a Cube, a piece of Metal or Wood framed four-square; when every side is exactly of the same equality, cast it which way you will, it will always be in the same posture, because it is equal to it self in all its dimensions: He was therefore said to be the Centre of all things, and other things the Circumference; the Centre is never moved while the Circumference is; it remains immovable in the midst of the Circle: There is no variableness nor shadow of turning with him. ^*The Moon hath her Spots, so hath the Sun; there is a mixture of Light and Darkness; it hath its changes; sometimes it is in the increase, sometimes in the wane; it is always either gaining or losing, and by the turnings and motions, either of the Heavenly-bodies or of the Earth, 'tis in its Eclipse, by the interposition of the Earth between that and the Sun. The Sun also hath its diurnal and annual motion; it riseth and sets, and puts on a different Face: It doth not alway shine with a noon-day light; 'tis sometimes veiled with Clouds and Vapours; it is always going from one Tropic to another, whereby it makes various shadows on the Earth, and produceth the various seasons of the year; 'tis not always in our Hemisphere, nor doth it always shine with an equal force and brightness in it: Such shadows and variations have no place in the eternal Father of Lights; He hath not the least spot or diminution of Brightness; nothing can cloud him or eclipse him. For the better understanding this Perfection of God,

^*This unchangeableness of God was anciently represented by the figure of a Cube, a piece of Metal or Wood framed four-square; when every side is exactly of the same equality, cast it which way you will, it will always be in the same posture, because it is equal to it self in all its dimensions: He was therefore said to be the Center of all things, and other things the Circumference; the Center is never moved while the Circumference is; it remains immoveable in the midst of the Circle: There is no variableness nor shadow of turning with him. ^*The Moon hath her Spots, so hath the Sun; there is a mixture of Light and Darkness; it hath its changes; sometimes it is in the increase, sometimes in the wane; it is always either gaining or losing, and by the turnings and motions, either of the Heavenly-bodies or of the Earth, 'tis in its Eclipse, by the interposition of the Earth between that and the Sun. The Sun also hath its diurnal and annual motion; it riseth and sets, and puts on a different Face: It doth not alway shine with a noon-day light; 'tis sometimes vail'd with Clouds and Vapours; it is always going from one Tropick to another, whereby it makes various shadows on the Earth, and produceth the various seasons of the year; 'tis not always in our Hemisphere, nor doth it always shine with an equal force and brightness in it: Such shadows and variations have no place in the eternal Father of Lights; He hath not the least spot or diminution of Brightness; nothing can cloud him or eclipse him. For the better understanding this Perfection of God,