Two treatises the first of fear, from Isa. 8, v. 12, 13, and part…

The last of which leads into a fourth much like unto it, namely the Unchangeableness of God; wherein his people may find as much rest and comfort amidst the vicissitudes of this unstable World, as in any of the former. This World is compared, Rev. 15. 2. to A sea of glass mingled with fire. A Sea for ⟨p. 221⟩its turbulency and instability, a Sea of glass for the brittleness and frailty of every thing in it; and a Sea of glass mingled with fire, to represent the sharp sufferings and fiery trials, with which the Saints are exercised here below. The only support and comfort we have against the fickleness and instability of the Creature, is the Unchangeableness of God. There is a two-fold changeableness in the Creature: 1. Natural, the effect of Sin. 2. Sinful, in its own Nature.

1. Natural, let in by the fall upon all the Creation; by reason whereof the sweetest Creature is but a fading flower, Psal. 102. 26. Time like a Moth frets out the best wrought garment with which we clothe and deck our selves in this World, temporalia rapit tempus. Our most pleasant enjoyments, Wives, Children, Estates, like the Gourd in which Jonah so delighted himself, may wither in a night; Sin rings these changes all the world over.

1. Natural, let in by the fall upon all the Crea•ion; by reason whereof the sweetest Creature is but a fading flower, Psal. 102. 26. Time like a Moth frets out the best wrought garment with which we cloath and deck our selves in this World, temporalia rapit tempus. Our most pleasant enjoyments, Wives, Children, Estates, like the Gourd in which Ionas so delighted himself, may wither in a night; Sin rings these changes all the world over.