A39662:153
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. 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?
A. There is a twofold change, one active, made by God, that we allow. He made a change upon our nature by uniting it to Christ; but a passive change made upon God, we deny. The nature of man was made more excellent; but the Divine Nature was still the same.
Q 6. What is the first Instruction from God's Immutability?