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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.
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.
1. Their Perseverance in Grace is built upon the foundation of Gods unchangeableness; one main reason why Christians never repent of their choice of Christ and the ways of Godliness, is because the gifts and calling of God are without repentance, Rom. 11. 29. Should God but once repent of the gifts of grace he hath bestowed on us, and alter in his love towards us, how soon would our love to God, and delight in God vanish, as the image in the glass doth when the man that looked upon it hath once turned away his face?