Two treatises the first of fear, from Isa. 8, v. 12, 13, and part…

What remains then, seeing God is Unchangeable in his love to his People, pursuing the the great ends of all his gracious promises in a steady course of Providence wherein he will never effect, or permit any thing that is really repugnant to his own glory or their good; but that we enter also into this Camber of Rest, shut the doors about us, and comfortably improve the unchangeableness of God, while we see nothing but changes and troubles here below.

WHat remains then, seeing God is Unchangeable in his love to his People, pursuing the the great ends of all his gracious promises in a steddy course of Providence wherein he will never effect, or permit any thing that is really repugnant to his own glory or their good; but that we enter also into this Camber of Rest, shut the doors about us, and comfortably improve the unchangeableness of God, while we see nothing but changes and troubles here below.

1. Enter into Gods Unchangeableness by Faith, take up your lodgings in this sweet Attribute also; and to encourage your Faith thereunto, seriously consider a few particulars.

1. Consider how constant, firm, and unchangeable God hath been to his people in all times and straits; not one among the many thousands of his people that are passed on before you, but by frequent and certain experience have found him so. What a singular encouragement should this be to our Faith in the case before us? Psal. 9. 10. They that know thy name, will put their trust in thee, for thou Lord hast not forsaken them that seek thee. So Isa. 25. 4. Thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as the storm against the wall. Neither is there any thing in your experience contradictory to the encouraging reports others have made of God; you must acknowledge, that notwithstanding your own changeableness who have hardly been able to maintain