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An exposition of the assemblies catechism with practical inferences from each question as it…
An exposition of the assemblies catechism with practical inferences from each question as it was carried on in the Lords Days exercises in Dartmouth, in the first year of liberty, 1688 / by John Flavell.
London: printed for Tho. Cockerill, 1692
Question 4 › Of God's Unchangeableness.Question 4 › Of God's Vnchangeableness.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Q. 2. Whence doth God's Immutability flow?
A. The Immutability of God flows from the perfection of his Nature, to which nothing can be added, and from which nothing can be taken away. If any thing could be added to make him better than he is; or if any thing could be taken away, to make him less good than he is, then he were not the chiefest Good, and consequently not God.
Q 3. By what other Argument prove you his Immutability?
A. I prove it from the Eternity of God. If God be eternal, he must be immutable; for if he change by addition of something to him he had not before, then there is something in God which he had not from Eternity: And if he change by diminution, then there was something in God from Eternity, which now is not; but from everlasting to everlasting, he is the same God, and therefore changeth not.