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Two treatises the first of fear, from Isa. 8, v. 12, 13, and part…
Two treatises the first of fear, from Isa. 8, v. 12, 13, and part of the 14 : the second, The righteous man's refuge in the evil day, from Isaiah 26, verse 20 / by John Flavell.
London: printed by H.H. for Robert Boulter, 1682
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.
3. The Unchangeableness of God is fully proved by convincing arguments which Divines commonly draw from such Topics as these, viz. 1. The Perfection of his Goodness. 2. The Purity of his Nature. 3. The Glory of his Name.
3. The Unchangeableness of God is fully proved by convincing arguments which Divines commonly draw from such Topicks as these, viz. 1. The Perfection of his Goodness. 2. The Purity of his Nature. 3. The Glory of his Name.
1. Arg. From the Perfection of his Goodness and Blessedness, God is Optimus, maximus, the best and chiefest good, and in that sense, There is none good but one, which is God, Mark 10. 18. From whence it is thus argued, If there be any change in God, that change must either be for the better, or for the worse, or into a State equal with that he possessed before.
But not for the better, for then he could not be the chief good; nor for the worse, for then he must cease to be God, the perfection of whose Nature is perfectfectly exclusive of all defects; nor into an equal state ⟨p. 224⟩of goodness with that he possessed before; that notion would involve Polytheism, and suppose two First and equal Beings, besides the vanity of such a change would be absolutely repugnant to the Wisdom of God.