An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…

Hence observe,

First, That to mind God of making us, is an argument to stay his hand from breaking us.¹

First, That to minde God of making us, is an argument to stay his hand from breaking us.¹

1. 1See more of this point, ver. 3 p. 445.

It repented the Lord (saith Moses, Gen. 6.6.) that he had made man, and it grieved him at the heart. This repentance and grief did not arise from his making of man; but from that necessity which his own justice and honour laid upon him to destroy man whom he had made; as it follows in the next words, And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created. The words show the resolution of God, not his propension; it went to his ⟨p. 499⟩heart to do it. If God repented and grieved (understand both by a figure) because he had made man, whom he must destroy, then it cannot but be a grief to him to destroy that which he hath made. It is as easy to the power of God to undo, as it is to do: but it is not so easy to his will to undo, as it is to do.

It repented the Lord (saith Moses, Gen. 6.6.) that he had made man, and it grieved him at the heart. This repentance and grief did not arise from his making of man; but from that necessity which his own justice and honour laid upon him to destroy man whom he had made; as it follows in the next words, And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created. The words shew the resolution of God, not his propension; it went to his