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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.
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.
Q. 4. Bus it is said, God repents, and Repentance is a change; How then is he unchangeable, and yet repents?
A. In those Phrases God speaks to us, as we must speak of, and to him; not properly, but after the manner of men; and it only notes a change in his outward providence, not in his nature.
Q. 5. But how could God become man, and yet no change made on him?