A39696:714
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.
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.
Therefore with the Father of lights can be no variableness nor shadow of turning.
2. Arg. The Unchangeableness of God may be evinced from the Purity, sincerity, and uncompoundedness of his Being, in which there neither is, nor can be the least mixture, he being a pure act. From whence it is thus argued;
If there be any change in God, that change must be made either by something without himself; or by something within himself, or by both together.