Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God

It had been a mutable affection in God, to love that which was not worthy of love, with the same love wherewith he loved that which had the greatest resemblance to himself: Had God loved the fallen Angels in that state and for that state, he had hated himself, because he had loved that which was contrary to himself and the image of his own holiness, which made them appear before, good in his sight. The Will of God is unchangeably set to love righteousness and hate iniquity, and from this hatred to punish it: And if a righteous Creature contracts the wrath of God, or a sinful Creature hath the Communications of Gods love; it must be by a change in themselves. Is the Sun changed when it hardens one thing and softens another, according to the disposition of the several subjects? Or when the Sun makes a flower more fragrant, and a dead carcass more noisome? There are divers effects, but the reason of that diversity is not in the Sun, but in the subject; the Sun is the same, and produceth those different effects, by the same quality of heat: So if an unholy Soul approach to God; God looks angrily upon him; If a holy Soul come before him, the same immutable perfection in God draws out his kindness towards him: As some think, the Sun would rather refresh than scorch us, if our bodies were of the same nature and substance with that Luminary.

It had been a mutable affection in God, to love that which was not worthy of love, with the same love wherewith he loved that which had the greatest resemblance to himself: Had God loved the fallen Angels in that state and for that state, he had hated himself, because he had loved that which was contrary to himself and the image of his own holiness, which made them appear before, good in his sight. The Will of God is unchangeably set to love righteousness and hate iniquity, and from this hatred to punish it: And if a righteous Creature contracts the wrath of God, or a sinful Creature hath the Communications of Gods love; it must be by a change in themselves. Is the Sun changed when it hardens one thing and softens another, according to the disposition of the several subjects? Or when the Sun makes a flower more fragrant, and a dead carcass more noysome? There are divers effects, but the reason of that diversity is not in the Sun, but in the subject; the Sun is the same, and produceth those different effects, by the same quality of heat: So if an unholy Soul approach to God; God looks angrily upon him; If a holy Soul come before him, the same immutable perfection in God draws out his kindness towards him: As some think, the Sun would rather refresh than scorch us, if our bodies were of the same nature and substance with that Luminary.