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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.
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.
But it cannot be by any thing without himself; for in him all created dependent Beings live and move, and enjoy the Beings they have; and all the changes that are among them, are from the pleasure of this unchangeable Being, he changeth them, but it is not possible for him, upon whose pleasure they so entirely and absolutely depend, both as to their Beings, and workings, to suffer any change himself from, or by them.
But it cannot be by any thing without himself; for in him all created dependent Beings live and move, and enjoy the Beings they have; and all the changes that are among them, are from the pleasure of this unchangeable Being, he changeth them, but it is not possible for him, upon whose pleasure they so intirely and absolutely depend, both as to their Beings, and workings, to suffer any change himself from, or by them.