Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God

6. Proposition, A change of Laws by God argues no change in God, when God abrogates some Laws which he had settled in the Church and enacts others. I spake of this something the last day: I shall only add this. God commanded one thing to the Jews, when the Church was in an infant state; and removed those Laws, when the Church came to some growth. The Elements of the world were suited to the state of Children. ^*A Mother feeds not the Infant with the same diet as she doth, when it is grown up. Our Saviour acquainted not his Disciples with some things at one time which he did at another, because they were not able to bear them; Where was the change, in Christs Will, or in their growth from a state of weakness to that of strength? A Physician prescribes not the same thing to a person in health, as he doth to one conflicting with a distemper; nor the same thing in the beginning, as he doth in the state or declination of the disease. The Physicians Will and Skill are the same, but the capacity and necessity of the Patient for this or that Medicine or method of proceeding, are not the same.

6. Proposition, A change of Laws by God argues no change in God, when God abrogates some Laws which he had setled in the Church and enacts others. I spake of this something the last day: I shall only add this. God commanded one thing to the Jews, when the Church was in an infant state; and removed those Laws, when the Church came to some growth. The Elements of the world were suted to the state of Children. ^*A Mother feeds not the Infant with the same diet as she doth, when it is grown up. Our Saviour acquainted not his Disciples with some things at one time which he did at another, because they were not able to bear them; Where was the change, in Christs Will, or in their growth from a state of weakness to that of strength? A Physitian prescribes not the same thing to a person in health, as he doth to one conflicting with a distemper; nor the same thing in the beginning, as he doth in the state or declination of the disease. The Physicians Will and Skill are the same, but the capacity and necessity of the Patient for this or that Medicine or method of proceeding, are not the same.

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