The blessedness of the righteous discoursed from Psal. 17, 15 /The blessednesse of the righteous discoursed from Psal. 17, 15 /

6. Tranquility. This also is an eminent part of that assimilation to God, wherein the blessedness of the holy Soul must be understood to lye: a perfect composure, a perpetual and everlasting calm, an eternal vacancy from all unquietness or perturbation. Nothing can be supposed more inseparably agreeing to the nature of God than this: Whom Scripture witnesses to be without variableness or shadow of change. There can be no commotion without mutation, nor can the least mutation have place in a perfectly simple, and uncompounded nature: Whence even Pagan reason hath been wont to attribute the most undisturbed and unalterable tranquility to the nature of God. Balaam knew it was incompatible to him to lye, or repent. And (supposing him to speak this from ⟨p. 142⟩a present inspiration) it is their common Doctrine concerning God.¹ Any the least troubles and tempests (saith one) are far exiled from the tranquility of God for all the inhabitants of heaven do ever enjoy the same stable tenor, even an eternal quality of mind. And a little after speaking of God, saith he, 'tis neither possible he should be moved by the force of another, for nothing is stronger than God; nor of his own accord, for nothing is perfecter than God.

6. Tranquility. This also is an eminent part of that assimilation to God, wherein the blessedness of the holy Soul must be understood to lye: a perfect composure, a perpetual and everlasting calm, an eternal vacancy from all unquietness or perturbation. Nothing can be supposed more inseparably agreeing to the nature of God than this: Whom Scripture witnesses to be without variablness or shadow of change. There can be no commotion without mutation, nor can the least mutation have place in a perfectly simple, and uncompounded nature: Whence even Pagan reason hath been wont to attribute the most undisturbed and unalterable tranquility to the nature of God. Balaam knew it was incompatible to him to lye, or repent. And (supposing him to speak this from ⟨p. 142⟩a present inspiration) it is their common Doctrine concerning God.¹ Any the least troubles and tempests (saith one) are far exiled from the tranquility of God for all the inhabitants of heaven do ever injoy the same stable tenour, even an eternal quality of mind. And a little after speaking of God, saith he, 'tis neither pssible he should be moved by the force of another, for nothing is stronger than God; nor of his own accord, for nothing is perfecter than God.