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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
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Nor can any such change be made upon God by any thing within himself; for that would suppose action and passion, movens & motum a mixture and composition in his Nature, which is absolutely rejected and excluded by the simplicity and purity thereof: seeing therefore it can neither be from any power without him, nor any mixture within him, there can be no change at all made on him.
3. Arg. That is by no means to be ascribed to God, which at once eclipses the glory of his name, ⟨p. 225⟩and overthrows the hopes and comforts of all his people.
But so would the supposition of mutability in God do, this would level him with the vain changeable creature; whereas it is a principal part of his glory, that He is not as man that he should lie, neither the son of man that he should repent, Numb. 23. 19. This also would overthrow the hopes and comforts of all his people, which are built upon this Attribute as upon their stable and solid foundation: Among divers other we find three principal privileges of the people of God, built upon his Immutability, viz. 1. Their Perseverance in Grace. 2. Their Comfort in the Promises. 3. Their Hopes of Eternal life.
But so would the supposition of mutability in God do, this would level him with the vain changeable creature; whereas it is a principal part of his glory, that He is not as man that he should lie, neither the son of man that he should repent, Numb. 23. 19. This also would overthrow the hopes and comforts of all his people, which are built upon this Attribute as upon their stable and solid foundation: Among divers other we find three principal priviledges of the people of God, built upon his Immutability, viz. 1. Their Perseverance in Grace. 2. Their Comfort in the Promises. 3. Their Hopes of Eternal life.